CO129-567-1 Education Department 8-6-1938 - 3-2-1939 — Page 77

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PAVEDI

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1.0.0 REG

GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONG KONG,

8th June, 1938.

Sir,

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on 1245/A/38 geil:

I have the honour to refer to Mr. Ormsby-Gore's

confidential despatch of the 5th of November, 1937,

transmitting a copy of a report by a Sub-Committee of the

Advisory Committee on Education in the Colonies regarding

the secondary education policy in this Colony. In this

connection I would invite your attention to my despatch

No.218 of the 15th of March, 1938, in reply to your circular despatch of the 14th of December, 1937, regarding

the Secondary School Certificate Examinations and the

Teaching of English in Secondary Schools in the Dependencies.

I take it that the comments of the Advisory

2.

Committee on the nature and content of the Secondary School

Course are to be read in conjunction with the remarks in

the memorandum which accompanied your circular despatch,

to which reference is made above, on the ideal curriculum

for secondary schools overseas. Particular reference is made

to the advisability of including in the course, in addition

to the other subjects, about which there is general agreement,

such subjects as manual training, music, training in the

arts and crafts, hygiene, physical training, local civics

and geography and history.

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I asked the Director of Education, to put to

the Board of Education for an expression of its views the

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

MALCOLM MACDONALD, M.P.,

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