Enclosure 2
5066 384
REC:
REGS 7 APR 94,
6. When, and so far as, the funds at the disposal of the Government for the purposes of this Scheme admit of it, the Government will grant to local schools, under Government supervision, having classes which come under the description specified under sub-sections 4, a or 4, b, monetary aid towards defraying the entrance fees required for the Oxford or Cambridge Local Examinations or for London University Matriculation Examinations, provided that the need for such aid be proved in each case to the satisfaction of the Governor, but such aid shall be equitably distributed among the several schools applying for it, in proportion to the average attendance of the classes concerned.
7. The foregoing Regulations shall be applicable, without distinction of sex or nationality, to any local scholar who has resided in the Colony of Hongkong for at least six years and is under 19 years of age.
8. No grant shall be made under this Scheme for any scholar or class of scholars in respect of whom any Government grant is payable under the Code of Regulations for Educational Grants-in-Aid (1893), Building Grants excepted.
9. The Government reserve to themselves the right of modifying or withdrawing any or all of the foregoing Regulations, but no material change will be made without six months' previous notice.
10. All correspondence with the Government, connected with this new Scheme of Regulations for Government Scholarships, must be sent through the Inspector of Schools for the time being.
HONGKONG, 7th February, 1894.
No.22.
Sir,
Queen's College.
12 Feb. 1894.
Dr. Eitel,
Inspector of Schools.
In accordance with the invitation, conveyed to me by your communication to the Local Papers, I have the honour to forward some remarks, on your new scheme for encouraging Higher Education, by means of funds obtained by the abolition of the Government scholarship.
(3)
£80 a year tenable for three years.
The substitution of a total value, payable to each scholar, of £240 for £80 does not commend itself to my judgment, for the following reasons.
(1) £200 a year has not been found too much for the total expenses (board, lodging, fees, books, clothing, railway fares) of students all the year round. It is well known that £150 at Oxford or Cambridge barely suffices for the six months' expenses of each year. £200 was suggested by Sir George Bowen, in imitation of the amount awarded at Mauritius.
(2)
The serious reduction from £800 to £240 cannot fail to have an effect on the status of the Scholarship, which will naturally fall considerably in general estimation.
(3)
Without private means or the assistance of relatives in England, the scholar would have to resort to third-rate institutions or resign his claim to the scholarship.
Enclosure 2
5066 384
REC:
REGS 7 APR 94,
6. When, and so far as, the funds at the disposal of the Government for the purposes of this Scheme admit of it, the Government will grant to local schools, under Government supervision, having classes which come under the description specified under sub-sections 4, a or 4, 6, monetary aid towards defraying the entrance fees required for the Oxford or Cambridge Local Examinations or fo London University Matriculation Examinations, provided that the need for such aid be proved in each case to the satisfaction of the Governor, but such aid shall be equitably distributed among the several schools applying for it, in proportion to the average attendance of the classes concerned.
7. The foregoing Regulations shall be applicable, without distinction of sex or nationality, to any local scholar who has resided in the Colony of Hongkong for at least six years and is under 19 years
age.
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8. No grant shall be made under this Scheme for any scholar or class of scholars in respect of whom any Government grant is payable under the Code of Regulations for Educational Grants-in-Aid (1893), Building Grants excepted.
9. The Government reserve to themselves the right of modifying or withdrawing any or all of the foregoing Regulations, but no material change will be made without six months' previous notice.
10. All correspondence with the Government, connected with this new Scheme of Regulations for Government Scholarships, must be sent through the Inspector of Schools for the time being.
HONGKONG, 7th February, 1894.
No.22.
sir,
Queen's College.
Dr.Eitel,
12 Feb. 1894.
Inspector of Schools.
In accordance with the invitation, conveyed to
me by your communication to the Local Papers, have the honour
to forward some remarks, on your new scheme for encouraging
Higher Education, by means of funds obtained by the abolition
of the Covern ent scholarship.
(3)
£80
a year tenable for three years.
The substitution of a total value, payable to each schol-
ar, of £240 for £80daoes not commenu itself to my juug-
ment, for the following reasons.
(1) £200 a year has not been found too much, for the total
(2)
expenses, (board, lodging, fees, books, clothing, railway
fares,) of students all the year round. It is well known, that £150 at Oxford or Cambridge barely suffices
for the six months' expenses of each year. £200 was
suggested by Sir George Bowen, in imitation of the
amount awarded at Mauritius.
The serious reauction from £800 to £240 cannot fail to
have an effect on the status of the Scholarship, which
will naturally fall considerably, in general estimation.
Without private means, or the assistance of relatives
(3)
in England, the scholar would have to resort to third-
rate institutions, or resign his elain to the scholar-
giáp.
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