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are precluded by the University Statutes under which they work from issuing Certificates other than in connexion with the Preliminary, Junior, Senior and High Local Examinations.
4. The Form of Certificate to be issued by your Education Department would have to be submitted to the Delegates for their approval, but that given below in Appendix A may be taken as indicating the kind of Certi- ficate which would appear satisfactory to them.
5. I am sending to you herewith three copies of the Regulations for the Local Examinations which are to be held next week, together with ten copies of the cor-
Therein you responding Regulations for the year 1905. will find on page 22 a statement of a system for the pro- vision of alternative Special Papers for a School, or group of Schools, which the Delegates have adopted in
As this connexion with the ordinary Local Examinations.
system was not completely organised at the time of my interview with Mr Irving, it may, perhaps be desirable that the Education Department at Hong Kong should have an opportunity of taking it into consideration in con- nexion with the proposed scheme for an examination in History and Geography.
6. Without binding my colleagues in respect of every detail, I may say that they would be willing to permit the substitution for the ordinary Papers in His- tory and geography of alternative Papers on syllabuses framed on the lines indicated in Appendices C & D of your Committee's Report.
7. Your Department will doubtless perceive that this system has certain obvious advantages, and will also judge whether it is compatible with the scheme of education
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