CO129-596-2 Education Department- annual report 1947-8- comments by Advisory sub-committee on Education in the Colonies 28-6-1949 - 1-2-1950 — Page 13

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1. The sub-committee at its meeting on the 28th June, 1949,

commented on the Hong Kong Report and expressed concern

at the dearth of certificated teachers.

They requested

further information on the question of teachers in

training and on the number of pupils attending the three

teacher Training Colleges ACEC (B)(49)3rd Minutes7.

2 A despatch was sent to Hong Kong expressing the

satisfaction of the Committee at the plans being made to

develop teacher-training and to increase the number of

schools; but stating that the Committee was seriously

perturbed at the 'dearth of certificated teachers' and

the paucity of teachers in training at the Northcote

Training College, especially since expatriate staff was

becoming increasingly difficult to secure. It was hoped

that all possible measures to correct this dearth would

be explored, and in particular such action as might be

possible would be taken to encourage the improvement of

teachers' salaries in subsidized schools.

information on the whole question of teacher-training was

requested.

Further

An explanation was also asked of the apparent

inconsistency between the figures for teachers in training

given in chapter VIII of the report and the figure of

713 given in annex 1 on page 48.