1904-1919
HONG KONG, 1916.
IV.-EDUCATION.
371
13
No important changes have taken place in the Education Department during the year under review. The staff has been depleted by causes due to the War.
The most important schools, apart from the excluded schools, are Queen's College for Chinese, four district schools its feeders, and the Belilios Public Schools for Chinese girls. There is an Indian School of growing importance now housed in a new building presented to the Colony by Mr. Ellis Kadoorie. Kowloon School and Victoria School for children of British parentage have an average attendance of about 120. There is also a school for the children of the Peak district. The Diocesan School and Orphanage and St. Joseph's College are important boys' schools in receipt of an annual grant. The Italian, French, and St. Mary's Convents, and the Diocesan Girls' School, are the most important of the English grant schools for girls.
The Hong Kong Technical Institute affords an opportunity for higher education of students who have left school. Instruction was given in 1916 in mathematics, machine drawing, architectural design, and building construction; in chemistry, physics and electricity; in commercial English, logic and political economy; in French, shorthand and book-keeping; and in translation from and into Chinese. Classes in sanitation (public hygiene) are also held, the examinations being conducted under the auspices of the Royal Sanitary Institute, London. Classes for men and women teachers, both "English" and Vernacular, are a feature of the Institute.
The lecturers are recruited from the members of the medical and educational faculties of the Colony, and from the Department of Public Works, and receive fees for their services. The Institute is furnished with a well-equipped chemical laboratory and excellent physical apparatus.
The Hong Kong University is an institution that arose from the joint enterprise of British and Chinese subscribers. It was founded with funds representing about equal proportions of Chinese and British money.
At the end of the year the number of students was 189, 108 of whom were taking the engineering course, 52 medicine, and 29 arts. While most of the students have studied in Hong Kong schools, a number come from Canton, the Coast Ports of China, and the Straits Settlements.
The idea of the University is to provide, close to China, education for Chinese similar to that given in the British Universities, but at a much cheaper cost; for if a Chinese goes abroad to be educated he has to pay, besides travelling expenses, some $2,000 per annum; whereas at Hong Kong the expenses of the University are $540 per annum for board and tuition, or, including extras, from $600 to $650.
The founders of the University took into consideration the fact that Chinese students being educated abroad have usually to make their own arrangements for board and lodging. Consequently sometimes they contract irregular habits. All students educated at the Hong Kong University are required to become boarders, and thus their whole lives are under supervision whilst they are there. Ample provision is made for indoor and outdoor recreation, and in this connection it is
1904-1919
HONG KONG, 1916.
IV.-EDUCATION.
371
13
No important changes have taken place in the Education Department during the year under review. The staff has been depleted by causes due to the War.
The most important schools, apart from the excluded schools, are Queen's College for Chinese, four district schools its feeders, and the Belilios Public Schools for Chinese girls. There is an Indian School of growing importance now housed in a new building presented to the Colony by Mr. Ellis Kadoorie. Kowloon School and Victoria School for children of British parentage have an average attendance of about 120. There is also a school for the children of the Peak district. The Diocesan School and Orphanage and St. Joseph's College are important boys' schools in receipt of an annual grant. The Italian, French, and St. Mary's Convents, and the Diocesan Girls' School, are the most important of the English grant schools for girls.
The Hong Kong Technical Institute affords an opportunity for higher education of students who have left school. Instruction was given in 1916 in mathematics, machine drawing, architectural design, and building construction; in chemistry, physics and electricity; in commercial English, logic and political economy; in French, short- hand and book-keeping; and in translation from and into Chinese. Classes in sanitation (public hygiene) are also held, the examinations being conducted under the auspices of the Royal Sanitary Institute, London. Classes for men and women teachers, both "English" and
Vernacular," are a feature of the Institute.
The lecturers are recruited from the members of the medical and educational faculties of the Colony, and from the Department of Public Works, and receive fees for their services. The Institute is furnished with a well equipped chemical laboratory and excellent physical apparatus.
The Hong Kong University is an institution that arose from the joint enterprise of British and Chinese subscribers. It was founded with funds representing about equal proportions of Chinese and British money.
At the end of the year the number of students was 189, 108 of whom were taking the engineering course, 52 medicine, and 29 arts. While most of the students have studied in Hong Kong schools, a number come from Canton, the Coast Ports of China, and the Straits Settle-
ments.
The idea of the University is to provide, close to China, education for Chinese similar to that given in the British Universities, but at a much cheaper cost; for if a Chinese goes abroad to be educated he has to pay, besides travelling expenses, some $2,000 per annum; whereas at Hong Kong the expenses of the University are $540 per annum for board and tuition, or, including extras, from $600 to $650.
The founders of the University took into consideration the fact that Chinese students being educated abroad have usually to make their own arrangements for board and lodging. Consequently sometimes they contract irregular habits. All students educated at the Hong Kong University are required to become boarders, and thus their whole lives are under supervision whilst they are there. Ample provision is made for indoor and outdoor recreation, and in this connection it is
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