CO129-333 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [1-4] — Page 295

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Your Lordship will observe that

the Independent Examiners considered that the work of the

school showed improvement compared with last year and that

the Head Master is also satisfied with the year's progress.

As regards the various courses of study the results of the

Mid-Summer Independent Examination in English subjects

undoubtedly the most important part of the curriculum

were not uniformly satisfactory; the Head Master, however

reports improvement in these subjects during the year.

There has been an increase in the interest taken in

Geography and I was well pleased with the sketch maps which

were drawn by several of the classes on the occasion of my

inspection. The difference of opinion, referred to in my

7029 Despatch No. 39 of the 16th. February, 1905, between the

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Inspector of Schools and the other Independent Examiners

on the one hand and the Head Master on the other, on

Universal versus English History as a subject of instruct-

-ion at the College still exists; I do not propose to take

steps to change the course there, based largely on the

requirements of the Oxford Local Examinations, at any rate

at present. I have dealt with the results of Hygiene

Instruction in the Report which was submitted to Your

Lordship