CO129-567-1 Education Department 8-6-1938 - 3-2-1939 — Page 3

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22 on 53541/36, incls Report of sub-bull ampia by by be on introduction of Music, Art & Crafts into local congen Caines schools, and submit comment.

See 10 on /36.

See 20 on

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Since this despatch was written Mr. Sayer,

Director of Education, has resigned. The Governor has

recommended that Mr. Sollis, Deputy Director, should

be appointed in his place. Mr. Sollis is an

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educational, not an administrative, officer, and was

recently appointed to his present post with the

intention of being appointed in due course to the post

of Director. This will probably enable the reforms

recommended by the Advisory Committee to be carried

out more fully, as Mr. Sayer's attitude has always been

somewhat obstructive.

(a)

crafts.

This despatch deals with

the teaching of music and other arts and

Here the local Committee's recommendations

seem satisfactory.

It is particularly noticeable that

the staff in the girls' schools are very much better

qualified for teaching these subjects than are the

staff in the boys' schools.

(o) physical training. Hong Kong are proceeding the with a method of training special instructors through

the agency of the Physical Training Supervisor rather

than waiting for a number of teachers who are qualified

for this work. It will be remembered that the view

was expressed here that the latter course was

preferable on broad educational grounds; but there

seems to me to be considerable force in the view that

the great majority of the existing staff of Chinese

school-teachers could not become efficient teachers of

physical training, and that the course adopted in

Hong Kong