THE ROYAL INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
INSTITUTE OF PACIFIC RELATIONS CONFERENCE.
1942.
EDUCATION IN HONG KONG
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The entire system of education in Hong Kong is controlled
and supervised by the Education Department and the Director of
Education is responsible directly to the Governor.
He is assisted by
a Board of Education composed of five members of the Department, and
about ten others representing the British, Chinese, and Portuguese
communities, Missions, Teachers' Association and the University. The
Board acts in a purely advisory capacity but all changes of policy and
administration, and the annual departmental estimates are laid before
it.
2. Administration.
In addition to the Director of Education, the Department
embodies two inspectorates.
Two senior Inspectors of English schools,
a woman Inspector and a Chinese Inspector of private English schools
supervise, examine and report on all schools where the medium of
instruction is English.
enrolment of 20,683. There is also a senior Inspector of vernacular
schools assisted by two Inspectors and a number of Sub-Inspectors.
The schools under supervision by this side of the Department number
1,128 with an enrolment of 96,892; while some English is taught in
these schools the medium of instruction is Cantonese.
There are 161 of these schools with an
a physical education staff and school medical service.
3. General Regulations.
There is also
A school is taken to mean any building, room or tenement
where more than 10 pupils are habitually taught and must comply with rules laid down by the Department in respect of ventilation, lighting,
sanitation and floor space per pupil. It must be registered as a
school, be open to inspection by the Director or his Inspectors, the
school medical officer and the school sanitary inspector. For failure
to comply with regulations, after due warning, the school may be
closed, or the owner brought before the civil courts.
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