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Paragraphs 24 - 26. The system referred to in this paragraph was reluctantly accepted by Government, as it was impossible to obtain a sufficient number of trained teachers in any other way. It is hoped that when it is again necessary to recruit there will not be such a dearth of trained teachers willing to come to Hong Kong.
Paragraph 27. This matter has already been under consideration by the Secretary of State who has ruled that the marriage of such officers is a necessary incidence of their employment.
Paragrah 28. Seniority is one of the factors to be taken into account when the filling of the higher posts is being considered; qualifications and merit are other considerations. A balance has to be struck between the three, and this balance the Government endeavours to achieve in its selection. There is no such post as Senior Mistress,
Central British School.
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There is in Hong Kong a large number of private unaided vernacular schools; it is the teachers of these schools that the Technical Institute teachers' classes are intended to, and do, benefit. These teachers are poor; their pay may be as low as $20 They cannot afford a University course nor would the majority be able to give up their working day to attend a Training College. To abolish the Technical Institute teachers' classes would be to deprive this class of person of the only opportunity it has of improving itself, and indirectly it would affect some thousands of school children. From the taxpayers' point of view the classes are remarkably cheap; 262 (nine being Government teachers) adult Chinese were in 1930 given instruction at a cost of $9,697. i.e. only $37 per head. The statement that no actual practice in teaching is given is
Whilst admitting that the system whereby Government
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has to pay the cost of training its Chinese University graduate teachers is not ideal, Government, after considering the master
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