CO129-253 - Public Offices & Others - 1891 — Page 678

}) (a) Victoria (ollye has decidedly the best and largest

Naff in the Colony

the

760

8 European masters to 1075 boga is a proportion English master to 134, bays. Ikuno school in the Colony where the proportio is preater

English master to 50 or 60 brys The

than one

size of the English staff is therefore no discredit

to the Collage.

[6] " abundance of school materials provided at a

ant of over $ 2000 a year"

by

with

هد

Sony school in the colony can provide each

necessary

books, states, writing material Je for less than $2 per head por amume should be glast to learn has the Lamang

effected.

(C) "it is, by its indepindecice as to the matter of : school fees, in a better position to emface street

"

"

discipline than private institutions whose

existence depends largel " of the cholars

the fors and favour

Table TV of the Jame Report shows the School Fees of Victoria Collye to be off 11. 912250; brzo in Clan I paying $36, in flamesth. t. of 24 and infance TV-VIII $12 per

There is Therefore no much advantage derived fre this imaginary independence

annann

(d) " similar Anglo Chinese and English Schots"

There is no similar institution in the Colony. Posopher Portuginese Shoot entirel European & Hindre HK Tables School.

Diocesan Home is a Boarding school, where the Eurasian bry

o are all day boy habituated to the use of the English language.

At Victoria College, on the other hand, it has been found necessary to combine an

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Eylish and Chinese excreation, 244 Foro being. devoted to Euglish, 10 hrs to thricese, weekly; while no control can be exercised over the Nudis out of school hours, nor opportineis afforded for further familiarisation with colloquial English, (C)" Storeph's Collye and the Diocesan school... will

outstrip the Victoria. College in the matter

of officiens

'and resulto“

If this should come to pass, it would not surprise me, as European (Fertignone) boy, and Boarders should acquire English more thoroughly than Chinese das scholars

while

His however remarkable

in the face of the above statement, to note that boys from these schools, on decking admission at Victoria Collye, are seldom fitted for the Upper School, never for Class I rarel, fu (lanze

much to their chagrin are relentin maiy to Classis T. and V. even aftin having passed

creditably the higher pantinctid standards. (f)" English Reading was in prite a number of

classes below the average of similar Arylo Chinose "Schroots".

bad resuelo.

8 In Table I attached to this paragraph, & classes passed 100%, I over 90%, the worst being PIA 85.71 or 4 fachines out of 28 boys, which on the whole commot be considered a Dr Eitil does not hear the reading off the 692 boys presented, but only the reading of those boys who have on examination bem foued by Head Master to be doubtful in this rospect, he

is not therefore in a

in a position to criticise the reading of the school as a whole.

more (9) "it gentlemane from India ..... defect of Victoria Bollige

me mas His not surprising that speaker of

European language should easily aspine

versational

English