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machine shop, wood-working shop, smith's shop and foundry.

The Education course we also consider of

special importance, because most of the Arts students are

taking it, and because of its manifest value for spreading

British ideas and indirectly furthering British interests by

training teachers for schools in China. We think this course has been defective on the practical side; in some

instances the instruction in actual teaching appears to have

been conducted after school hours, when master and class and

students were all fatigued; in other instances studente

appear to have shirked it entirely. Te recommend that more

attention and better supervision be given to this branch of

the work. We are of opinion that two whole-time men are

required for the course; a Professor or Lecturer of Education

on the theoretical side, and a Master of Method on the

practical side. Perhaps the Goverment may be able to spare

temporarily two competent sen for the purpose.

With regard to the present two-year course for

a Commercial Diploma, which has had a trial of three years,

we understand that the course is too short to be practically

useful, that the diploma has proved unattractive as being

inferior to a degree, that hitherto no student has actually

taken it, and that in last tem's examination only one

candidate passed out of sir, It is sugested to us that,

the course having failed as now constituted, the commercial

group of subjects should be either abandoned or elevated into

one of the options of the Arts degree. We understand that

the latter alternative involves no increase of staff, and we

recommend its adoption. We further-more understand that the

Hongkong Chamber of Commerce are opposed to the abandonment;

and that, in order to give the course a full trial, they are

prepared to ask local fire to provide, for a period of five

years, the salary of the whole-time lecturer who might be

saved

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