CO129-264 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1894 [9-12] — Page 117

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may be imported, comes to render his appointment unnecessary, Farther it is not usual for Inspectors of Schools to be placed on such Boards

(4) As the Board will not, from the nature of the case, be in a position to judge of the present system and its results, till they have acquired some personal acquaintance with, and experience of the working of the College, I submit that they should be instructed to spend at least a year in collecting information and considering the existing method, before suggesting any reform, Hasty changes are always deleterious.

(1) Great care will be necessary in defining these, as no Board should have powers that would swamp the personality or lever the deputy of the Head Masters

(2) Care is also requisite to prevent the powers of the Board endangering the existing rights and privileges of the English and Chinese Staff, the are members of the Hongkong Civil Service and entitled to all privileges and rights pertaining thereto, including Pension, Right of Appeal to the Secretary of State &c.

(3) The Annual Examination should continue to be left entirely to the management of the Head Master, the requires to be cognisant of the work done by every boy in every class, to judge of the value of the education given by the subordinate masters, and to make reasonable and just promotions. It is not desirable, nor indeed possible, for any Board to examine and report on 790 or 800 boys, with sufficient speed or by this means to ensure uniformity of standard and general efficiency.

(4) Briefly it seems to me that the functions of the Board should be limited to

(a) Financial Matters.

(b) General Educational Scheme.

(c) Hearing of complaints, presented by or against the Headmaster, in connection with his staff.

(5) All internal organisation, including appointment of Masters to certain classes, promotion or demotion, punishment, expulsion of boys, thefts of School Material &c. would remain with the Head Master.

(6) The Head Master would continue to correspond directly with the Colonial Secretary, and to draw up and forward his own Annual Report.

(1) Up to the present moment, in accordance with the authority conferred on me by Marquis of Ripon (Earl de Grey and Ripon, formerly known as Lord Ripon, then Viscount Goderich, and before that Earl de Grey) in November 1881, I have been solely responsible to the Governor for the management of the College; and until I went on leave in 1898, no serious charge was laid against the manner, in which I discharged the duties entrusted to my care. On the other hand from 1888-1889 inclusive, the Inspector of Schools was voluble in his praise of the organisation, method and discipline; extracts from his Reports were forwarded to Your Lordship by me in 1892.

(2) While I was in England, Lord Knutsford invited my explanation regarding charges brought by the Inspector of Schools, on the subject of OVO FDPORUJE TYCH and the absence of our boys from the competition for the Bellips Medal. His Lordship expressed himself satisfied with my replies, and informed me that they were forwarded to Hongkong, as was also an independent letter, which I was constrained to write to His Lordship regarding the dangerous and prejudicial statements appearing in the Inspector's Reports.

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