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Your savingram No. 22. of 23rd April.

Education Grant Code.

1. Following are further comments of Non-

African Sub-Committee of A.C.E.C.

Part I, Section 19. Thilst they appreciate

the difficulties mentioned by the Director of

Education in (b), (c) and (d), the Sub-Committee

would point out that similar conditions are

experienced in England. Teachers of handicrafts

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and other specialist teachers in grammar schools in

England are in a similar position to the Chinese

teachers mentioned in (b).

With reference to (a), the Sub-Committee

would suggest that if pupils were encouraged to

read and discuss a little more and to write a little

less, there would not only be a reduction in the

time spent in correcting written work, but there

would be an improvement in the standard of their

English.

Section 20. The Sub-Committee hope that

amendment of the syllabus in order to widen the

scope of the School Certificate examination will

be made as early as possible. They will be

interested to receive a further report when it has

been