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and Medicine.

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. dominated the Arbs group of

studies among which the only others of real importance were An Ecomonies and Politics, and later in Chinose, wherein local Chinese bogan to be interested and furnished buildings, and an excellent Chinese Idbrazy, Studies in a course for the training of tencheru were integrated with other studies in the Arts and Science Groups, not very satisfactorily and on the whole the progress in the training of teachers was ineffective. This was in largo part due to the polioy of the Goverment in the Educational Department till relatively recently under which Government High Schools wore staffed very largely by men. and women recruited in England. A small and slowly growing number of trained

graduates was employed, but on scales of pay that were inadequate and with littïu chunce of substantial promotion. Of later years, the success of' a number of locally educated and trained teachers in aided schools, especially, has lowered, if not yet entirely removed the bariors erected against Chinese entrants to the profession, Alded and Missiomry schools depended for almost all their senkor staff on foreign missionarics: but they did

...

employ

a much higher proportion of local trained teachers.

A special Faculty of Science was set up in 1938 and new laboratories for Chemistry, Physics, Botany, Zoology with a

small provision for Geology were erected in 1940-1.

They had

been in use only for a few months when the Japonese attack came. Experience from 1938 justified a hope that more adequately pro- vided for scientific studies should progress.

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