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The Upper Classes at Queen's College and King's College are fed by promotion from their own remove and lower classes as well as from those of four "District Schools", the latter in turn being "fed" by promotion from their own lower classes and from those of the "Lower Grade" Schools.
The Upper Classes of Queen's College and King's College are thus pyramided on ten schools, while, with the exception of St. Joseph's Junior School and St. Francis' School, each Grant in Aid School has an upper school of its own.
The Girls' Schools are happily circumstanced but, though small classes are educationally desirable they are a luxury for schools which find it difficult to maintain upper school staffs and the half-empty first classes in the attached table indicate, as I pointed out in my report for 1929, that there is no need for any increase in the secondary departments in English Schools.
Table showing Classes 1 and 2 in November 1930.
Class 1 Class 2 Total.
Diocesan Boys School
17
34
51
St. Joseph's College
33
95
128
St. Paul's College
12
30
42
Wah Yan College
26
56
82
Wah Yan Branch School
0
18
18
Diocesan Girls School
11
17
28
French Convent School
.10
20
30
Italian Convent School
14
19
33
St. Mary's School
11
10
21
St. Stephen's College for Girls
14
17
31
Queen's College
33
80
113
King's College
23
52
75
Belilios Public School
13
18
31
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Two schools call for special mention. The Salesian In- dustrial School provides elementary education in conjunction with vocational training for orphans and other poor children. At present the trades taught are shoe-making, tailoring, printing and carpentry. The school is equipped with machinery for a mechanical workshop but the present premises are too restricted for the purpose.
This efficient and useful institution will in the near future move into more commodious premises and will be able to extend the scope of its activities and accommodate a considerably greater number of young people,
In High Street there is a subsidised Vernacular School with about 60 pupils who divide their time between ordinary school subjects and practical work in weaving and basket making for which a special instructor is provided.
UNAIDED SCHOOLS.
The 702 unaided schools include three uncontrolled schools, 135 English schools and 564 Vernacular schools.
The total number of the English schools appears stationary though in the course of the year ten ceased to exist and eleven new ones were registered. Most of these schools, though by no means all, are comparatively cheap. Others admit pupils who are over age for Government schools or who for other reasons cannot gain admittance to Government or Grant in Aid schools.
When circumstances permit I hope that it will be possible to bring a larger number of the unaided Vernacular schools within the subsidy system. These schools would seem to have a prior, though less articulate claim on assistance from public funds.
SCHOOLS FOR GIRLS,
Out of 62,297 children under instruction in the schools of the Colony during 1930, 18,136, or 29%, were girls. The proportion of girls to total number of pupils on roll in urban districts was double that in rural districts.
Girls attending schools were distributed as under:-
(a) in Government Schools
in Aided Schools
in Unaided Schools
To efficient Vernacular schools managed by charitable bodies, where education is free or fees nominal. subsidies are paid on the dollar for dollar basis. In rural districts schools established by the village elders are similarly assisted.
To efficient proprietary schools financial assistance is given in cases where otherwise the teacher will not realise a reasonable income.
Of the 688 Vernacular schools on the urban register in 1930. 195 were subsidised and there were 93 subsidised schools out
of the total of 169 in the rural districts.
(b) in Vernacular Schools
in English Schools
1,225
9,470
7,441
18,136
14,806
3,330
18,136
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