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# Chapter IX.
# EDUCATION AND WELFARE INSTITUTIONS.
## GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS.
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, seventeen in number, are known as "English" schools, the latter of which there are three as "Vernacular" schools.
2. Of the four English schools, classed as secondary schools in the Table below, two are Anglo-Chinese schools for boys and one for girls. These three schools have primary departments. The fourth school, the Central British School which is a mixed school, has no primary department. Of the eleven English schools, classed as primary schools in the Table, three are mixed schools preparing for the Central British School. In this group are also four "District" schools, including one for Indian boys and four "Lower Grade" schools, three of which are in rural districts. In those English schools which are attended by Chinese the study of English and of Chinese is carried on side by side, the pari passu system requiring that promotion shall depend on proficiency in both languages.
3. Of the two Government Schools classed as "Vocational” one is the Junior Technical School which was opened in February, 1933, the other is the Technical Institute which is attended by persons desirous of receiving instruction for the most part germane to their day time occupations.
4. Of the three Government Vernacular schools one has a seven years' course and includes a Normal department. There is also a Normal school for women teachers and a Normal school on the mainland which aims at providing Vernacular teachers for rural schools.
## GRAND-IN-AID AND SUBSIDIZED SCHOOLS.
5. There are fourteen Grant-in-Aid English Schools, and four Grant-in-Aid Vernacular Schools. Of the former, seven are schools for boys and seven are for girls.
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6. One English school for girls has a primary department only. The remaining schools classed in the table below as secondary schools have primary departments as well as the upper classes. One Infant School for girls has been added to the Grant List during the year.
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Chapter IX.
EDUCATION AND WELFARE INSTITUTIONS.
GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS,
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, seventeen in number, are known as "English" schools, the latter of which there are three as "Vernacular" schools.
2. Of the four English schools, classed as secondary schools in the Table below, two are Anglo-Chinese schools for boys and one for girls. These three schools have primary departments. The fourth school, the Central British School which is a mixed school, has no primary departinent. Of the eleven English schools, classed as primary "schools in the Table, three are mixed schools preparing for the Central British School. In this group are also four "District" schools, including one for Indian boys and four "Lower Grade" schools, three of which are in rural districts. In those English schools which are attended by Chinese the study of English and of Chinese is carried on side by side, the pari passu system requiring that promotion shall depend on proficiency in both languages.
3. Of the two Government Schools classed as "Vocational” one is the Junior Technical School which was opened in February, 1933, the other is the Technical Institute which is attended by persons desirous of receiving instruction for the most part germane to their day time occupations.
4. Of the three Government Vernacular schools one has a seven years' course and includes a Normal department. There is also a Normal school for women teachers and a Normal school on the mainland which aims at providing Vernacular teachers for rural schools.
GRAND-IN-AID AND SUBSIDIZED SCHOOLS.
5. There are fourteen Grant-in-Aid English Schools, and four Grant-in-Aid Vernacular Schools. Of the former, seven are schools for boys and seven are for girls.
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6. One English school for girls has a primary department only. The remaining schools classed in the table below as secondary schools have primary departments as well as the upper classes. One Infant School for girls has been added to the Grant List during the year.
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