CO129-530-2 Advisory Committee on Education in the Colonies- Hong Kong education report 1930 23-12-1930 - 12-10-1931 — Page 13

REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION

FOR THE YEAR 1980

Chapter 1-Preface.

SUMMARY OF CONTENTS,

Chapter 2 Review of Year.

Chapter 3-Report by the Iuspectors of English Schools. Chapter 4--Report by the Inspectors of Vernacular Schools. Chapter 5-Report by the Director of the Technical Institute.

Tables I & II.-General Tables of Schools and Scholars. Table III--Government Schools.

Table IV.-Controlled Schools in receipt of a Grant under the

Grant Code.

Table V.-Amount of Fees remitted in Government Schools in

1930.

Table VI.-Graph showing numbers of scholars between 1913

and 1930.

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Chapter I.-Preface.

CLASSIFICATION OF SCHOOLS.

At the end of 1930 a departmental committee of the Board of Education (England) was surveying the present position of schools which have hitherto escaped the attentions both of the Board of Education and of the Local Education Authorities and it is not unlikely that the committee may recommend legislative action to bring all schools within official control.

Similar action was taken in Hong Kong in 1913 under the Education Ordinance of that year which brought all schools into the control of the Education Department. A school was then defined as "a place where ten or more persons are being habitually taught”.

Of the 1024 schools controlled by the Education Depart- ment in 1930 twenty are provided schools. The cost of their equipment and maintenance is a charge on the colonial revenues and except for a few temporary appointments the teachers are civil servants on the permanent establishment of the colony.

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