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(ii) The Subsidized Schools are all Vernacular Schools and differ from the Vernacular Grant in Aid Schools only in the method by which financial assistance is afforded. The Subsidy system is found to be the most suitable way of implementing financial assistance to Vernacular schools and it is not proposed to add to the number of Vernacular schools under Code regulations.
4.—UNAIDED SCHOOLS.
The pupils in the Unaided Schools constitute about half of the children under instruction in Hong Kong. The relations between them and the Director of Education are governed by the Education Ordinance of 1913.
(i) As will be seen from Table 2, the great majority of these schools are Vernacular schools, and among them there is considerable difference as to quality. At one end are schools nearly good enough to be eligible for subsidy; at the other end are ephemeral schools which come and go each year. Thus in 1929, 193 new schools were granted registration and 164 closed.
(ii) The unaided English schools are either day schools or night schools, the former being on the whole of better quality. In 1929, 16 new day schools and 42 new night schools were registered; 22 day schools and 45 night schools were closed.
Very few of these schools approach the standard of the Grant in Aid schools, nor are they able to provide such staff, premises, or equipment as would enable them to do so.
Educationally, there is little need for these schools, and the demand for instruction in English which calls them into existence would be more satisfactorily met by additional "District" or Lower Grade Government schools.
The great majority of the pupils in the three different classes of English schools are to be found in the junior schools and the junior departments of "secondary" schools, and of these, most leave before they reach Class 2, where in Government and Grant in Aid Schools they are required to sit for the Junior Local Examination of the University of Hong Kong.
Up to 1913, the date of the Education Ordinance, the policy or trend, as described by the then Director of Education, was "to encourage Upper Grade schools, both Government and Grant rather than Lower Grade schools."
Though this tendency has been somewhat modified since pre-Ordinance days, the improvement is mostly in the field of Vernacular education, and the existence of 135 English schools in which the teaching and the English are for the most part of an inferior quality shows that the demand for English is only partially satisfied by the more efficient Government and Grant in Aid schools.
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(ii) The Subsidized Schools are all Vernacular Schools and differ from the Vernacular Grant in Aid Schools only in the method by which financial assistance is afforded. The Subsidy system is found to be the most suitable way of implementing financial assistance to Vernacular schools and it is not proposed to add to the number of Vernacular schools under Code regulations.
4.-UNAIDED SCHOOLS.
The pupils in the Unaided Schools constitute about half of the children under instruction in Hong Kong. The relations between them and the Director of Education are governed by the Education Ordinance of 1913.
(i) As will be seen from Table 2 the great majority of these schools are Vernacular schools and among them there is con- siderable difference as to quality. At one end are schools nearly good enough to be eligible for subsidy at the other end are ephemeral schools which come and go each year. Thus in 1929 193 new schools were granted registration and 164 closed.
(ii) The unaided English schools are either day schools or night schools, the former being on the whole of better quality. In 1929 16 new days schools and 42 new night schools were registered: 22 day schools and 45 night schools were closed.
Very few of these schools approach the standard of the Grant in Aid schools, nor are they able to provide such staff, premises or equipment as would enable them to do so.
Educationally there is little need for these schools and the demand for instruction in English which calls them into existence · would be more satisfactorily met by additional "District" or Lower Grade Government schools.
The great majority of the pupils in the three different classes of English schools are to be found in the junior schools and the junior departments of "secondary" schools, and of these most leave before they reach Class 2 where in Government and Grant in Aid Schools they are required to sit for the Junior Local Examination of the University of Hong Kong.
Up to 1913, the date of the Education Ordinance, the policy or trend, as described by the then Director of Education, was "to encourage Upper Grade schools, both Government and Grant rather than Lower Grade schools"
Though this tendency has been somewhat modified since pre-Ordinance days, the improvement is mostly in the field of Vernacular education and the existence of 135 English schools in which the teaching and the English are for the most part of an inferior quality shows that the demand for English is only partially satisfied by the more efficient Government and Grant in Aid schools.
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