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Annexe C.
REPORT ON THE VERNACULAR SCHOOLS, URBAN DISTRICTS, 1922.
Certificates have been issued during the year to 58 new Private Day Schools, a decrease of 13 from the numbers for 1921. 5 Schools were struck off the list and 31 closed, compared with 77 in 1921. The total number of Private Day Schools would thus have increased from 359 to 381, but of the 53 Grant Schools previously on the list 48 were transferred to the Subsidy list, bringing the present total up to 429.
The steadying influence of the Subsidy System is shown by the small number of Schools that closed during the year—only 31 as against 77, 70, 62 and 64 for the preceding four years. The number of new schools, too, is the lowest on record, but the number of pupils enrolled has increased from 20,049 to 21,068 (both figures inclusive of Grant Schools).
Of the 429 Private Schools now existing 1 is Exempted, 6 are in Class A, 298 in Class B and 124 in Class C, and the average enrolment in Grant Schools, Subsidised Schools and non-Subsidised Schools 237, 57 and 42 respectively. The number of pupils who continue beyond the third year is 7% in Subsidised and 16% in non-Subsidised Schools, the lower figure in the former case being due to the fact that nearly half the Subsidised Schools are Free Schools for the poor. The Pan Man Society have opened another four Schools, for boys, and the Confucian Society have continued their three new Free Schools for girls.
Of the 57 Subsidised Schools on the list at the end of 1921 and of the 48 Schools which were transferred from the Grant List 5 were struck off before the Chinese New Year, as being inefficient, and 3 closed: 41 old and 20 new Schools were put on the list and 6 inefficient ones were struck off during the course of the year, bringing the present total of Schools in receipt of Subsidy to 152.
Of the $58,800 available for Subsidies the amount actually recommended amounted to $55,390 only, as various schools which it was hoped would be able to benefit by such assistance did not come up to Standard. Of this amount $2,443 were withheld owing to bad management or general inefficiency in individual cases, and the mere fact of this being done has brought about a much more rapid attention to general management than was possible under the Grant System. The total amount paid out in Subsidies has thus been $52,907. The total enrolment being 8,486 this works out at $6.23 per head.
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Annexe C.
REPORT ON THE VERNACULAR SCHOOLS, URBAN DISTRICTS, 1922.
Certificates have been issued during the year to 58 new Private Day Schools, a decrease of 13 from the numbers for 1921. 5 Schools were struck off the list and 31 closed, compared with 77 in 1921. The total number of Private Day Schools would thus have increased from 359 to 381, but of the 53 Grant Schools previously on the list 48 were transferred to the Subsidy list, bringing the present total up to 429.
The steadying influence of the Subsidy System is shown by the small number of Schools that closed during the year-ouly 36 as against 77, 70, 62 and 64 for the preceding four years. The number of new schools, too, is the lowest on record, but the number of pupils enrolled has increased from 20,049 to 21,068 (both figures inclusive of Grant Schools).
Of the 429 Private Schools now existing 1 is Exempted, 6 are in Class A, 298 in Class B and 124 in Class C, and the average enrolment in Grant Schools, Subsidised Schools and non-Subsidised Schools 237, 57 and 42 respectively. The number of pupils who continue beyond the third year is 7% in Subsidised and 16% in non-Subsidised Schools, the lower figure in the former case being due to the fact that nearly half the Subsidised Schools are Free Schools for the poor. The Pan Man Society have opened another four Schools, for boys, and the Confucian Society have continued their three new Free Schools for girls.
Of the 57 Subsidised Schools on the list at the end of 1921 and of the 48 Schools which were transferred from the Grant List 5 were struck off before the Chinese New Year, as being inefficient, and 3 closed: 41 old and 20 new Schools were put on the list and 6 inefficient ones were struck off during the course of the year, bringing the present total of Schools in receipt of Subsidy to 152.
Of the $58,800 available for Subsidies the amount actually recommended amounted to $55,390 only, as various schools which it was hoped would be able to benefit by such assistance did not come up to Standard. Of this amount $2,443 were withheld owing to bad management or general inefficiency in individual cases, and the mere fact of this being done has brought about a much more rapid attention to general management than was possible under the Grant System. The total amount paid out in Subsidies has thus been $52,907. The total enrolment being 8,486 this works out at $6.23 per head.
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