4. Of the Chinese population 6% claim ability to speak English and 5% to read and write in that language.
5. The Superintendent of Census, however, warns "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 were 119,008 children between the age of five and fourteen distributed as under :-
Hong Kong and 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 1063 schools in 1932 and the number of pupils in attendance was 70,759 as compared with 68,593 in 1931.
9. Of the 1060 schools controlled by the Education Department in 1932 nineteen 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 1041 unprovided schools 314 are partly dependent on assistance from public funds. The remaining 727 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 (including the Technical Institute), are known as "English" schools: the latter, of which there are three, as "Vernacular" schools.
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4. Of the Chinese population 6% claim ability to speak English and 5% to read and write in that language.
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5. The Superintendent of Census, however, warns "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 were 119,008 children between the age of five and fourteen distributed as under :-
Hong Kong and 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 1063 schools in 1932 and the number of pupils in attendance was 70,759 as compared with 68,593 in 1931.
9. Of the 1060 schools controlled by the Education Depart- ment in 1932 nineteen 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 1041 unprovided schools 314 are partly dependent on assistance from public funds. The remaining 727 unprovided schools are subject to registration and inspection by the Educa- tion 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 oʻ instruction is Chinese. The former, sixteen in number (including the Technical Institute), are known as "English" schools: th... latter, of which there are three, as "Vernacular" schools.
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