CO129-588-3 Royal Institute of International Affairs Institute of Pacific Relations Conference 1942- education in Hong Kong... 1-1-1942 - 31-12-1942 — Page 6

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(b) A typical weekly syllabus in these schools would apportion

the work as follows:

Chinese (or Urdu for Indians) English (Dictation, Reading,

Composition, Oral, Picture

work)

(Arithmetic

(Geography

Taught in (History

English (Hygiene

(Physical Education (General knowledge

Games

Colloquial

Recreation

7 hours

7 hours 3호 hours

1 hour 20 mins. 1 hour 20 mins. 40 mins.

1 hour 20 mins. 40 mins.

1 hour

1 hour 20 mins.

1 hour 20 mins.

26 hours 30 mins.

7. Primary Vernacular Schools (Boys)

There is one Government rural vernacular sbhool and one

aided secondary school with a primary vernacular department.

schools are:

Other

Urban (Subsidised)

(Unsubsidised)437 Rural (Subsidised) 115 (Unsubsidised) 40

91 Enrolment 10,141

39,073

體

6,353

11

1,993

(a) The rural schools have an environmental bias with emphasis on agriculture, otherwise the time-tables and syllabus are much the same as that shown in 6 (b) except that English is taught as a foreign language and has 40 minutes per day allotted to it. 8. Secondary Education (Boys).

As previously mentioned (6(a)) those requiring secondary education are examined at the end of Class 5. Nearly all pupils take this examination and about 1,000 pass annually into Class 4 of

the secondary schools. There are two Government and seven aided

schools with a total enrolment of 2,555.

(a) The classes are from class 4 to class 1 and the age range

as follows:

Class 4 Class 3

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13 15 14 16

Class 2

15

17

(School certificate)

Class 1

15 - 18

(Matriculation)