CO129-465 - Public Offices & Others - 1920 — Page 568

Telegrams:-

Renseigne Southkens, London.

Dear Mr. Grindle,

BOARD OF EDUCATION,

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REC 12 AUG 20

at Victoria & Albert Museum,

South Kensington,

London, S...

11th August, 1920.

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The Scottish Education Department and ourselves have

Women's between us four applicants for the ammo posts in

Hong Kong. Only one of these candidates satisfies the conditions, in that she is trained and certificated. Of the

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others, one was trained for a teacher of art, and ther passed through a course of training at one of our girls' secondary schools and took a Froebel examination; the remaining candidate has practically not been under in- struction since she left school after taking the Oxford and Cambridge Joint Board Certificate. I have seen this last candidate whom we had sent just before the War as ar exchange teacher to Prussia, She is a capable person and

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socially prey presentable, but it is likely that the absence of technical qualifications would handicap her as a teacher in the Hong Kong Service. If you think it

E. A. Grindle, Esq., C.M.G.,

colonial Office,

8.7.