9. Agriculture and fishing are the main occupations of the inhabitants of the rural districts. The rest of the Colony is busy city and port, an important banking centre and a centre of retail trade; and a meeting place between the East and the West. As such, in addition to manual labourers, there is a high percentage of interpreters, clerks, accountants, shroffs, tallymen, shop-keepers and the like among the resident population.
10. The Director of Education derives his legal powers from the Education Ordinance of 1913 which requires all non-Government schools (unless specifically exempted) to register and to conform to regulations.
11. Since 1920 he has been advised by a Board, of which he is "ex officio" chairman. This Board is a non-statutory body appointed by the Governor and consists of unofficial members—at present 11 in number—together with the Senior Inspector of English and Vernacular Schools respectively.
12. The Government "provides"—that is to say builds (or rents), equips and staffs—a certain number of schools, English, Vernacular, Normal and Technical, the headmasters and mistresses of which are responsible to the Director. It also "aids" by means of grants, chiefly Capitation, a certain number of schools both English and Vernacular, conditionally on their subscribing to a Code approved by the Director; and, by means of subsidies, a considerable number of Vernacular schools in both urban and rural areas.
13. Control of these Aided schools is exercised through English and Vernacular Inspectors on the Director's staff, while the latter are called upon also to advise, instruct, and admonish a large and constantly changing body of unaided schools—boys schools, girls schools, day-schools, night-schools, "English" schools, Vernacular schools, middle, primary and kindergarten, urban and rural.
14. Education, being eagerly sought after by the Chinese, is neither compulsory nor free. Nor is poverty an absolute bar to learning; for several charitable societies, aided by the Government subsidy, contrive to admit pupils without fee, or at a very small charge: while a number of Scholarships, both Government and other, assist the poor scholar to mount the educational ladder.
15. A school is defined as a place where ten or more persons are habitually taught in one or more classes.
16. A Vernacular school is defined as one in which Chinese is the medium of instruction, and an English school as one in which the medium of instruction is solely or chiefly English. In English schools attended by Chinese pupils, English and Chinese are studied side by side, the pari passu system requiring that promotion shall depend on proficiency in both languages.
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9. Agriculture and fishing are the main occupations of the inhabitants of the rural districts. The rest of the Colony
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busy city and port, an important banking centre and a centre of retail trade; and a meeting place between the East and the West. As such, in addition to manual labourers, there is a high percentage of interpreters, clerks, accountants, shroffs, tallymen, shop-keepers and the like among the resident population.
10. The Director of Education derives his legal powers from the Education Ordinance of 1913 which requires all non- Government schools (unless specifically exempted) to register and to conform to regulations.
11. Since 1920 he has been advised by a Board, of which he is "ex officio" chairman. This Board is a non-statutory body appointed by the Governor and consists of unofficial members→→ at present 11 in number-together with the Senior Inspector of English and Vernacular Schools respectively.
12. The Government "provides"-that is to say builds (or rents), equips and staffs--a certain number of schools, English, Vernacular, Normal and Technical, the headmasters and mistresses of which are responsible to the Director. It also "aids" by means of grants, chiefly Capitation, a certain number of schools both English and Vernacular, conditionally on their subscribing to a Code approved by the Director; and, by means of subsidies, a considerable number of Vernacular schools in both urban and rual areas.
13. Control of these Aided schools is exercised through English and Vernacular Inspectors on the Director's staff, while the latter are called upon also to advise, instruct, and admonish a large and constantly changing body of unaided schools- boys schools, girls schools, day-schools, night-schools, "English" schools, Vernacular schools, middle, primary and kindergarten, urban and rural.
14. Education, being eagerly sought after by the Chinese, is neither compulsory nor free. Nor is poverty an absolute bar to learning; for several charitable societies, aided by the Government subsidy, contrive to admit pupils without fee, or at a very small charge: while a number of Scholarships, both Government and other, assist the poor scholar to mount the educational ladder.
15. A school is defined as a place where ten or more persons are habitually taught in one or more classes.
16. A Vernacular school is defined as one in which Chinese is the medium of instruction, and an English school as one in which the medium of instruction is solely or chiefly English. In English schools attended by Chinese pupils, English and Chinese are studied side by side, the pari passu system requir- ing that promotion shall depend on proficiency in both languages.
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