CO129-503-6 Vacancies for schoolmasters- difficulty in filling posts- terms of appointment and service 17-3-1927 - 15-11-1927 — Page 91

soon

as they take their degrees at the University

and before they have started on a career in this

country or elsewhere. Such men must either be sent out

to gain their experience in the Department for which

they are selected or, if it is considered essential

to give them previous training in educational matters,

such training must be given them by some form of

course in this country or elsewhere at the expense

of the Government which is going to employ them. This

view has been endorsed by my Advisory Committee on

Native Education so far as Tropical Africa is con-

cerned and it is on young men of this type that I

now mainly rely for filling vacancies in the Educa-

tion Departments of East and West Africa, posts which,

as I have indicated above, prove far more attractive to

the type of candidate, which I understand you desire to

secure, than those in Hong Kong.

14.

In the second place I am inclined to think that

the best way in which to overcome the various conditions

of service in the Far East, which appear to affect recruit-

ment adversely, is to spread in the principal Universities

a