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and Medicine.

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dominated the Arts group of

studies among which the only others of real importance were

in Ecomonies and Politics, and later in Chinoso, whorein

local Chinese began to be interested and furnished buildings,

and an excellent Chinese Library. Studies in a course for the

training of teachers 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 policy of the Covomment in

the Educational Department till relatively recently under

which Government High Schools were 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 little chance of

substantial promotion. Of Inter years, the success or a

number of locally educated and trained teachers in aided

schools, especially, has lowered, if not yet entirely removed

the bariors orcoted against Chinese entrants to the profession.

Alded and Missionary schools depended for almost all their

senkor staff on foreign missionaries, but they did

a much higher proportion of local trained teachers.

5 TA special. Faculty of Science was set up in 1338, and new

1938,

and

employ

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 Japanese attack came.

Experience from 1938 justified a hope that more adequately pro-

vidad