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suggestions. The Advisory Committee

have found these reports particularly

illuminating and helpful.

2.

As I stated in my letter last

year on the same subject, the Secretary

of State has refrained from issuing any

hard and fast instructions on this matter,

and would deprecate rigid uniformity.

But there is a general feeling at this end.

that reports should be made as helpful as

possible to those not acquainted with the

areas to which the reports refer, in the

interests of those who are responsible for

advising the Secretary of State,

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other Colonies who want to find out what is

being done in other departments, and more

Feducational

particularly educational authorities at home,

who often refer to these reports when questions

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of recognising service in/oversea school, or

deciding the equivalence of oversea standards

to home standards, arise. I may mention that

the Board of Education often finds it necessary

to refer to these Colonial Education Reports

in connection with these and similar questions.

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ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION IN THE COLONIES

HONG KONG EDUCATION REPORT, 1930.

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Copies of this Report have been circulated to members

It will be remembered that

with papers for this meeting.

members remarked last year on the absence of any attention to

the suggestions of the Advisory Committee relating to the

form and content of Annual Education Reports in the 1929

Report of this Colony. Members will probably agree that The

1930 Report does not show in this respect any decided improve-

or give a ment, and will fail to find in it/clear and satisfactory

account of the educational position and policy in Hong Kong.

It is proposed to send to the Director of Education a copy

of one or two of the many excellent Education Reports that are

now being received from other Colonies and prepared more or less

on the lines suggested by the Advisory Committee, in order that

he may see the advantages of such treatment of this subject.

2. Though, with reference to the criticism of the 1929

Report, a separate section has now been devoted to women's

education, the section contains very little information on the

subject, and gives no clear idea of the aims, methods or

results. The complete absence of any comparative statement

makes it impossible to form any idea of progress that may have

been made in 1930 as compared with 1929 or any preceding period

or years. The percentage of population of school-going age

actually enrolled in school is not shown generally or for any

community of either sex.

3. The only outstanding event of the year seems to have been

a revision of syllabuses. The reasons for such revision and

its main lines are not shown.

4.

It is satisfactory to find that attendance in the

vernacular middle school, which combines the study of Chinese

culture with Western studies, continues to improve.

✡vide Minutes of 19th meeting, item 5; and 25th meshing, item 3 (ii) (a),

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The results in the local examinations conducted by the

Hong Kong University continue to be poor.

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