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5. The Superintendent of Census, however, warns us: "There is of course a strong temptation to claim attainments which one does not possess, or possesses only in a very small degree. The figures are likely, therefore, to err by giving too favourable an impression of educational attainments, and this error is made from time to time. For this reason comparison with previous censuses is of uncertain value, and is also difficult on account of the different method for presentation of the results adopted in 1921."
6. According to the Census report there are 119,000 children between the age of five and fourteen distributed as under:-
Hong Kong & Kowloon New Territory Afloat Total 88,481 17,940 12,587 119,008SCHOOLS.
7. A "school" is defined in the Education Ordinance as a place where ten or more persons are being or are habitually taught.
8. There were 1,072 schools in 1931 and the number of pupils in attendance was 68,593 as compared with 62,297 in 1930.
9. Of the 1,069 schools controlled by the Education Department in 1931 twenty were provided schools. The cost of their equipment and maintenance is a charge on the colonial revenues and, except for a few temporary appointments, the teachers are civil servants on the permanent establishment of the colony.
10. Of the 1,049 unprovided schools 312 are partly dependent on assistance from public funds. The remaining 737 unprovided schools are subject to registration and inspection by the Education Department but receive no financial assistance from funds at the disposal of the Director of Education.
There are three uncontrolled schools.
PROVIDED SCHOOLS.
11. These are either schools where the medium of instruction is English or mostly English or schools where the medium of instruction is Chinese. The former, sixteen in number, are known as "English" schools; the latter, of which there are three, as "Vernacular" schools.
12. Of the four English schools, classed as "secondary schools in Table II, two are Anglo-Chinese schools for boys and one is for girls. These three schools have primary departments. The fourth, the Central British School, which is a mixed school, has no primary department.
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5. The Superintendent of Census, however, warns us: "There is of course a strong temptation to claim attainments which one does not possess, or possesses only in a very small degree. The figures are likely, therefore, to err by giving too favourable an impression of educational attainments, and this error is made from time to time. For this reason comparison with previous censuses is of uncertain value, and is also difficult on account of the different method for presentation of the results adopted in 1921."
6. According to the Census report there are 119,000 children between the age of five and fourteen distributed as under:-
Hong Kong & Kowloon New Territory Afloat
Total
88,481
17,940
12,587
119,008
SCHOOLS.
7. A "school" is defined in the Education Ordinance as a place where ten or more persons are being or are habitually taught.
8. There were 1,072 schools in 1931 and the number of pupils in attendance was 68,593 as compared with 62,297 in 1930.
9. Of the 1,069 schools controlled by the Education Depart- ment in 1931 twenty were provided schools. The cost of their equipment and maintenance is a charge on the colonial revenues and, except for a few temporary appointments, the teachers are civil servants on the permanent establishment of the colony.
10. Of the 1,049 unprovided schools 312 are partly dependent on assistance from public funds. The remaining 737 unprovided schools are subject to registration and inspection by the Education Department but receive no financial assistance from funds at the disposal of the Director of Education.
There are three uncontrolled schools.
PROVIDED SCHOOLS.
11. These are either schools where the medium of instruction is English or mostly English or schools where the medium of instruction is Chinese. The former, sixteen in number, are known as "English" schools; the latter, of which there are three, as "Vernacular" schools.
12. Of the four English schools, classed as "secondary schools in Table II, two are Anglo-Chinese schools for boys and one is for girls. These three schools have primary departments. The fourth, the Central British School, which is a mixed school. bas no primary department,
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