CO129-404 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1913 [10-12] — Page 399

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Education Department,

Hongkong, 1st August, 1913.

I have the honour to request that application

may be made to the Crown Agents to engage the three new English

Mistresses sanctioned in the 1914 Estimates for the three

British Schools.

I attach the usual requisition form, wherein I

give a list of subjects: none of these could properly be omitted

from the curriculum of a High School for Girls, to the standard

of which the British Schools should aim in so far as their girl

pupils are concerned. The difficulty rests in the smallness of

their staffs. It cannot be expected that any one teacher should

be able to teach all these subjects, or even any two teachers

between them. It should however be possible to arrange for the

mistresses at each school to visit the other two schools, so

that all may give instruction in the subjects in which they are

best qualified.

Hoping that this arrangement will prove feasible.

The

I have drafted the qualifications in their present form.

requisition should be accompanied by a copy of this letter,

without which it is unintelligible.

The Honourable

The Colonial Secretary.

I have,

etc.

Så.

E. IRVING

Director of Education.