CO129-527-19 Annual Education Report 1929 30-9-1930 - 16-2-1931 — Page 16

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Advisory Committee on Education in the Colonies

Hong King Annual Education Report

1929

Though there are signs here and there of

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attention having been paid to the Committee's suggest-

ions regarding the form and content of Annual Reports,

much still remains to be done on the lines suggested

by the Committee in order to make the Report intelli-

gible and useful to outside readers. There is, for

instance, no separate treatment of female education.

Much of the Report consists of detailed accounts of

individual institutions, which have little interest

for readers outside the Colony.

The Report contains no indication of any

important problems under discussion or investigation,

nor does there seem to be any consciousness of any

defects in the present system, so far as the Govern-

ment is concerned. Such information as is given

indicates a very fair level of efficiency and steady

progress. In arrangements for medical inspection,

physical training and local examinations, the Colony

seems to set a good example. But the possibility of

serious defects remaining unnoticed is suggested by

the figures relating to school enrolment.

attendance, as apart from enrolment figures, be not givery though they are moet important in considering

the offioisney er eeheels. According to thesenrei-

ment figures, while 13% of the male non-European

population is attending school, the corresponuing

I can find no percentage for females is only 5.

reference in the keport to the reasons for this

difference, or to any steps that have been taken to

improve the female enrolment. Nor is there any

reference to the education of the East Indian

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