Two schools call for special mention. The Salesian Industrial School provides elementary education in conjunction with vocational training for orphans and other poor children. At present the trades taught are shoe-making, tailoring, printing, and carpentry. The school is equipped with machinery for a mechanical workshop but the present premises are too restricted for the purpose.
This efficient and useful institution will in the near future move into more commodious premises and will be able to extend the scope of its activities and accommodate a considerably greater number of young people.
In High Street, there is a subsidised Vernacular School with about 60 pupils who divide their time between ordinary school subjects and practical work in weaving and basket making, for which a special instructor is provided.
UNAIDED SCHOOLS.
The 702 unaided schools include three uncontrolled schools, 135 English schools, and 564 Vernacular schools.
The total number of the English schools appears stationary, though in the course of the year ten ceased to exist and eleven new ones were registered. Most of these schools, though by no means all, are comparatively cheap. Others admit pupils who are over age for Government schools or who, for other reasons, cannot gain admittance to Government or Grant-in-Aid schools.
When circumstances permit, I hope that it will be possible to bring a larger number of the unaided Vernacular schools within the subsidy system. These schools would seem to have a prior, though less articulate, claim on assistance from public funds.
SCHOOLS FOR GIRLS.
Out of 62,297 children under instruction in the schools of the Colony during 1930, 18,136, or 29%, were girls. The proportion of girls to the total number of pupils on roll in urban districts was double that in rural districts.
Girls attending schools were distributed as under:
(a) in Government Schools
1,225
in Aided Schools
9,470
in Unaided Schools
7,441
18,136
(b) in Vernacular Schools
14,806
in English Schools
3,330
18,136
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Two schools call for special mention. The Salesian In- dustrial School provides cleanentary education in conjunction with vocational training for orphans and other poor children. At present the trades taught are shoe-making, tailoring, printing and carpentry. The school is equipped with machinery for a mechanical workshop but the present premises are too restricted for the purpose.
This efficient and useful institution will in the near future move into more commodious premises and will be able to extend the scope of its activities and accommodate a considerably greater number of young people.
In High Street there is a subsidised Vernacular School with about 60 pupils who divide their time between ordinary school subjects and practical work in weaving and basket making for which a special instructor is provided,
UNAIDED SCHOOLS.
The 702 unaided schools include three uncontrolled schools, 135 English schools and 564 Vernacular schools.
The total number of the English schools appears stationary though in the course of the year ten ceased to exist and eleven new ones were registered. Most of these schools, though by no means all, are comparatively cheap. Others admit pupils who are over age for Government schools or who for other reasons cannot gain admittance to Government or Grant in Aid schools.
When circumstances permit I hope that it will be possible to bring a larger number of the unaided Vernacular schools within the subsidy system. These schools would seen to have a prior, though less articulate claim on assistance from public funds.
SCHOOLS FOR GIRLS.
Out of 62,297 children under instruction in the schools of the Colony during 1930, 18,136, or 29%, were girls. The proportion of girls to total number of pupils on roll in urban districts was double that in rural districts.
Girls attending schools were distributed as under:-
(a) in Government Schools
in Aided Schools
1,225
9,470
in Unaided Schools
7,441
18,136
(b) in Vernacular Schools
14,806
in English Schools
3,330
18,136
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