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Each year for students attending subsidised schools who wish to continue their education, Government offers 30 scholarships (comprising free tuition, but not free books) tenable at a Government English school for 5 years. In addition four similar scholarships tenable at Government's Saiyingpun Vernacular School for Boys are awarded annually. The scholarships are awarded on the results of a competitive examination,
Salaries received by assistant masters in these schools average about $35 (£2.4s) per mensem.
(b) Rural Districts:-
At Un Long the Government maintained an upper primary school with two grades. The curriculum was the same as in an ordinary upper primary school with the addition of English (stress being laid on the teaching of English conversation). Male students from this school may compete with those from Cheung Chau and Taipo for scholarships which consist of remission of fees at Yaumati school for two years. The enrolment was 107, of whom 19 were girls. In this area malaria is prevalent and the average attendance was only 82 or 76.6% of the maximum enrolment.
In 1939 in rural districts there were 113 subsidized and 62 non-subsidized boys schools.
Nominally there are boys schools and girls schools but in boys' schools girls are usually admitted up to the age of 12 and vice versa. Where one school serves more than one village the school is, as a rule, a mixed school. The boys far outnumbered the girls (9,350 to 2,039), this being due to the reluctance of the country-folk to send their daughters to school—a similar situation once prevailed among the urban Chinese population but has practically disappeared now.
The curriculum is similar to that in urban primary schools and the text books used are the same, but an attempt was made to encourage school gardens.
Subsidies were paid at varying rates according to a school's merit and its financial requirements. Those with more than one teacher received up to the maximum of $1,000 (£62) per annum, an amount received by only one school. The total amount paid out in subsidies to rural schools in 1939 was $22,765 (£1,423). Open to scholars in rural subsidised schools are 27 scholarships annually; these scholarships consist of free tuition (and sometimes travelling expenses) at a Government primary school for a period of two to five years.
Non-subsidised schools on the whole have teachers with lower qualifications and do not reach so high a standard.
(Special mention must be made of the schools in the refugee camps provided by the Hong Kong Government for those Chinese who entered the Colony when the Sino-Japanese hostilities reached the borders of the New Territories. These schools which were organised by the Hong Kong Refugee and Social Welfare Council were educating 2,000 children, the teachers receiving only a nominal salary. The curriculum included Chinese, arithmetic, singing, physical exercises, hygiene, handwork and where possible gardening
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Each year for students attending subsidised schools who wish to continue their education, Government offers 30 scholarships (comprising free tuition, but not free books) tenable at a Government English school for 5 years. In addition four similar scholarships tenable at Government's Saiyingpun Vernacular School for Boys are awarded annually. The scholarships are awarded on the results of a competitive examination,
Salaries received by assistant masters in these schools average about $35 (£2.4s) per mensem.
(b) Rural Districts:-
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At Un Long the Government maintained an upper primary school with two grades. The curriculum was the same as in an ordinary upper primary school with the addition of English (stress being laid on the teaching of English con- versation). Male students from this school may compete with those from Cheung Chau and Taipo for scholarships which consist of remission of fees at Yaumati school for two years. The enrolment was 107, of whom 19 were girls. In this area malaria is prevalent and the average attendance was only 82 or 76.6% of the maximum enrolment.
In 1939 in rural districts there were 113 subsidized and 62 non-subsidized boys schools.
Nominally there are boys schools and girls schools but in boys' schools girls are usually admitted up to the age of 12 and vice versa. Where one school serves more than one village the school is, as a rule, a mixed school. The boys far outnumbered the girls (9,350 to 2,039), this being due to the reluctance of the country-folk to send their daughters to school-a similar situation once prevailed among the urban Chinese population but has practically disappeared now.
The curriculum is similar to that in urban primary schools and the text books used are the same, but an attempt was made to encourage school gardens.
Subsidies were paid at varying rates according to a school's merit and its financial requirements. Those with more than one teacher received up to the maximum of $1,000 (£62) per annum, an amount received by only one school. The total amount paid out in subsidies to rural schools in 1939 was $22,765 (£1,423). Open to scholars in rural subsidised schools are 27 scholarships annually; these scholarships consist of free tuition (and sometimes travelling expenses) at a Government primary school for a period of two to five years.
Non-subsidised schools on the whole have teachers with lower qualifications and do not reach so high a standard.
(Special mention must be made of the schools in the refugee camps provided by the Hong Kong Government for those Chinese who entered the Colony when the Sino-Japanese hostilities reached the borders of the New Territories. These schools which were organised by the Hong Kong Refugee and Social Welfare Council were educating 2,000 children, the teachers receiving only a nominal salary. The curriculum included Chinese, arithmetic, singing, physical exercises, hygiene, handwork and where possible gardening
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