CO129-548-2 Vacancy for Director of Education 19-2-1934 - 11-10-1934 — Page 5

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Note on Education in Hong Kong (Reference Sir J.Maffey's Minute of

28.6.34.)

Scope of Education in Hong Kong. (1932).

Class of Govt. Schools Grant-in- School.

Aid and

Unaided Schools.

Subsidised

Schools.

ENGLISH

=Medium of No.of On No. of On

No.of On

instrn.) netn. Rolls. Instr. Ralls. Instns. Rolls.

English. Institutions

Seccndary. 4.2,387. 13 Primary 11: 1,759

5861

10

1660

1

210

106

5027

Vocational. 16 632.

Total.

16. 4,778

14 6071

116

6687

VERNACULAR

(= medium of

2.

3.

instrn.

Chinese).

Secondary

Primary

Vocational 2

NIH

251

41,118

295 20005 614

31,978.

205

11 130

3

456

300 21,253.614 300

31,978

Total number of institutions 1063 Total on Roll

71,223

Cost of Education in Hong Kong.

1932.

1934 Estimates.

Personal Emoluments

1.355.398.

1592.049

Other Charges

390.$86

418.030.

Total

1.745.984

1.990.079

$130.

£120.00 $= sh.1/6) £149.256($=sh.1/6).

Degree to which education is related to the Chinese and to Chinese Political issues.

Of the 260 English and Vernacular Teachers

in the Education Department in 1932, 36 (35 English and í Vernacular) were engaged in schools for

children of European British parents, 9 in a

school for Indians, the remainder being

engaged in schools mainly for Chinese.

In Hong Kong, as in other countries in the

East where a large Chinese population is living

outside

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