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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 1956.
OPENS ANNUAL
GRIEG'S TOWN
FESTIVAL Grace
IN MAY
Oslo, Apr. 23.
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Bergen, the small but busy Norway port, famous in history for its Viking kings, its Hansa Merchants, its many churches and its great citizen, the 225 composer Evard Grieg, has now established its annual Festival among the well-known European Festivals of music and drama.
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Daily Folklore
During the last four days of the Festival, the company from the National Theatre in Oslo will visit Bergen to present another comedy, by the 19th century dramatist, poet -and novelist, Bjornstjerne Bjornson.
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Too Many Children For Schools In Sierra Leone
Freetown, Apr. 23.
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So many children want to go to school in Sierra Leone that the Department of Education is having drastically to revise its development plans.
In the meantime, at the beginning of each school term, teachers are approached by anxious parents with gifts of a chicken, or money, to help young Tommy get a place.
are many of the schools are sup- ported by Protestant or Catholic churches, and by Americm and British missions, and can look after promising scholars.
At the moment, there 40,000 children in primary and Recondary Achools in the country, or about ten per cent of the total who would go to school if education was com~ pulsory.
IN MUD HUTS
All this means that existing schools throughout the country
the are
Hlapid expansion of educa- tional facilities is impossible, bowever, partly owing lack of finance for building and portly owing to the difficully of trajuing sufficient teachers.
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in
bursting at The SLITTI:. Smoll schools, administered by the Native Authorities, in which the Chief and a committee lake responsibility for local affairs, are in many cases taking up to 89 pupils for each teaclier.
wee Increasing
even have examinations.
But the
passed their Anal
SEEMS ESSENTIAL
Freetown HEAM the biggest problem of all because people.
Often, Urese schools are in from the country, attracted by mud huta, or apart from the the amenities of a big town, are rainy season, under a nearby nelling here
The teachers themselve‹ numbers and the school popula-have perhaps only just Anlabed every day.condary school and may not growing New buildings
are being pul up-over the whole country it to erect 30 schools a Is hoped to year although this level has not Uten
maintained over the post never keep years but they nev pace with demand.
To illiterate
mothers unel fathers, it secins museufjol that at least
one boy in the family should be able to read and write. in the big towns, if there are places in the elementary schools, it my only mean the expendi lure of 1 year on books by parents.
To go to a private school may
cost only another £2 a year.
But in the country, the schools are few and far between, and although children walk as much
miles en live
cach way from their home to school, along hush trucks, many of them have to become boarders, which means more expenso.
A total expenditure of about £6 a year
means a lot to a farming family whose cash in-
£30 come may not excred
Relatives are often asked your. for financial help. In addition,
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Important thing is that they are prepared to teach. The children, who are brought up Speakinst their native Janguage, are given only minimum of instruction in it. After that, at the age of about seven, they start to learn English and instruction is then given in that language.
The African child, therefore, start with a handicap, but bc- cause of the limited areas which the local languages cover, there is no other solution.
In addition, English is the accepted method of communiça- in British West African tion territories with, between them, about 50,000,000 people.
HIGH PERCENTAGE
As the numbers In the primary schools Increase, So does the demand for secondary education.
there At present, are only 23 accondary schools in Sierra Leone, with about 4,500 pupils. An entrance examination the numbers down but keeps
of the big problems facing the authorities is the heavy wastage of pupils before they reach the finat examination standard.
One
50
A high
Js
percentage have to icavo school because
their parent or guardian dies and there is no one to pay the com- paratively low school fees, OI those who do sit for their @nal examination, a pass list of about
cent per
considered reasonable.
University education in Sierra Leone is at Fourah Bay College, founded by the Church Missionary Society in 1827, and students sit for Arts and Com- mercial degrees as well as taking teacher training and general coUISTO,
other
In the
general expansion of education, the technical side has not
been forgotten and the recently started Technical
Institute in Freetown now trains carpenters, brick-layers, black- smiths,
typists and
radio
engineers among many others.
Before
the Technical Institute was opened, the craft trades
either WCTO
passed on from father to son or learnt by triol and error. But it is not unusual
to see a sign-board outside the shop of a tailor or shoe-repairer which has underneath the name Trained in HM Prisons. This is still considered a guarantee of a high standard of workman- ship.
IMPROVE QUALITY
In addition to other problems, the Department of Education has to handle social and moral wolfare, There are small re- mand and approved schools but a positive attempt is being made to get the wayward children into reasonable jobs.
EmployCra in Sierra Leone say that they cannot find enough well-educated youngsters. To meet this complaint, the Educa- tion authorities are trying to improve quality, possibly at the. expense of quantity. country with not a lot of money and a big demand for education, this is going to prove difficult- China Mall Special,
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Moroccan Shootings
Rabat, Apr. 28. A Moroccan member of the. Istiqlal Party was shot deaf last night with a revolver in the Arab quarier of Foz at.. Bab. Guloo, It was reported here to day.
· In other altacks on Individuais yesterday, a Moroccan Inspector was seriously wounded in the
Arab quarter of Part D CREDI
by Moroccans who fled in
At Meknes, a lorry driver was attacked and severely wounded, by two. Morvoeren #TRATOR/
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