PROVIDED SCHOOLS-BRITISH.
37. The total number of children enrolled in these four schools was 534 as compared with 519 in 1932.
38. The usual meetings of the teachers in charge of British Schools were held in 1933.
39. Victoria British School was closed at the end of 1931. While it was possible to do this owing to the proximity of a similar provided school for young children at Quarry Bay, the two schools in Kowloon have had difficulty in finding accommodation for all who deserve admission. The increasing number of British children resident in the peninsula and the growing tendency among parents to have their children educated in the Colony instead of sending them to Europe has already strained the accommodation in these two schools and it is hoped that circumstances will allow the new Central British School to be erected at an early date.
40. It should be noted that Kowloon and other Junior British Schools are not nursery schools and no children under five years can be admitted. Nor should what is effectively private tuition be expected for the benefit of children whose school education has been neglected or delayed.
PROVIDED SCHOOLS--ENGLISH.
41. There are twelve of these, among which is the "District" school for Indians where Urdu takes the place of Chinese, and the Junior Technical School. The total number enrolled in 1933 was 3,682 as compared with 3,627 in 1932.
42. In 1930 the English Syllabus of the "District" schools, which is the same for the Remove and Lower Classes at Queen's College and King's College, was revised by a Departmental Committee consisting of the Inspector of English Schools and the six headmasters concerned. The new syllabus which came into force at the beginning of 1931 has reduced the number of new subjects to be encountered in Class 3.
43. In 1930 a Committee appointed to examine the then Chinese syllabus found that this was too heavy and that some of the text books in use were out of date. The chief features of the new syllabus which came into force in 1932 are (a) that a portion and not the whole of the Four Books is taken: (b) the deletion of Chinese Geography; (c) a reduction in the amount of Chinese History which is at the same time rendered more definite; (d) the aim of the course to be a more practical knowledge of the written language; (e) the use of more up-to-date books; (f) the whole based on an assumption of four years' preliminary education.
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PROVIDED SCHOOLS-BRITISH.
37. The total number of children enrolled in these four schools was 534 as compared with 519 in 1932.
38. The usual meetings of the teachers in charge of British Schools were held in 1933.
39. Victoria British School was closed at the end of 1931. While it was possible to do this owing to the proximity of a similar provided school for young children at Quarry Bay, the two schools in Kowloon have had difficulty in finding accom- modation for all who deserve admission. The increasing number of British children resident in the peninsula and the growing tendency among parents to have their children educated in the Colony instead of sending them to Europe has already strained the accommodation in these two schools and it is hoped that circumstances will allow the new Central British School to be erected at an early date.
40. It should be noted that Kowloon and other Junior British Schools are not nursery schools and no childen under five years can be admitted. Nor should what is effectually private tuition expected for the benefit of children whose school education has been neglected or delayed.
PROVIDED SCHOOLS--ENGLISH.
41. There are twelve of these, among which is the "District” school for Indians where Urdu takes the place of Chinese, and the Junior Technical School. The total number enrolled in 1933 was 3,682 as compared with 3,627 in 1982.
42. In 1930 the English Syllabus of the "District" schools. which is the same for the Remove and Lower Classes at Queen's College and King's College, was revised by a Departmental Committee consisting of the Inspector of English Schools and the six headmasters concerned. The new syllabus which came into force at the beginning of 1981 has reduced the number of new subjects to be encountered in Class 3.
43. In 1930 a Committee appointed to examine the then Chinese syllabus found that this was too heavy and that some of the text books in use were out of date. The chief features of the new syllabus which came into force in 1932 are (a) that a portion and not the whole of the Four Books is taken: (b) the deletion of Chinese Geography; (c) a reduction in the amount of Chinese History which is at the same time rendered more definite (d) the aim of course to be a more practical knowledge of the written language: (e) the use of more up-to-date books: (f) the whole based on an assumption of four years' preliminary education.
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