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ACEC (OT) (48) 4th Minutes.

ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION IN THE COLONIES

Other Territories Sub-Committee

Draft minutes of the 4th Meeting held on Tuesday, 7th December, 1948.

Present:-

Mr.

Mr. Burney (Chairman)

Mr.

Elliott

The Rev. H.M. Grace

Bishop Myers

Sir Mark Young

Mr.

Robison

Mr. Anderson (Social Services Dept. 'B').

Apology for non-attendance had been received from Robertson.

1. MINUTES. Sir Mark Young pointed out an apparent contradiction between Mr. Rowell's statement in paragraph 18 of -the Minutes of the 3rd Meeting held on 16th July 1948 that private schools could charge what fees they liked and the second scntence Enclosure of point 5 on page 3 of the Memorandum by Mr. Rowell (ACEC (OT) (48)

4) which stated that legislation had been introduced prohibiting private schools from raising feos. It was DECIDED that elucidation on this point should be obtained from Mr. Rowoll. The Minutes of the 3rd Meeting were then confirmed.

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2. THE HONG KONG SUBSIDY CODE (ACEC (48)17). The sub-committee did not understand why a Subsidy Code was needed since the Grant Code as revised in 1948 prescribed regulations in accordance with

If a which the Grant-in-Aid was paid to vernacular schools. Subsidy Code was necessary in addition to the Grant Code, the sub-committee RECOMMENDED approval of the revised Subsidy Code subject to the following comments:-

(a) It was thought that difficulties might arise from obscurities in the drafting of certain paragraphs of the Code, particularly paras 3, 12, 20(a), 26 and 30.

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(b) The sub-committee understood that as a result of the recent discussions which the Colonial Office had with the Director of Education, Hong Kong, and the Bishop of Hong Kong, the amendment of paragraph 3 had been suggested. The omission of the words "shall be deemed ...

regulations, and" would appear

the meet the objections which the Bishop had made. As the term "Manager" would then disappear from the wording of this paragraph, the sub-committee considered that the correct title "Correspondent" should replace "school manager" in paragraph 16.

(c) The sub-committee wished to know how the figure 1.4 in paragraph 12 had been calculated. The formula suggested could give a part-time teacher a higher salary than one working full time.

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The sub-committee suggested that the word "approved". should be inserted before "educational purposes" in paragraph 20(a). (e) The wording of paragraph 26 did not clearly indicate what was meant by "higher standards". The sub-committee suggested that there should be definitions of "primary school course" and "middle school course" referred to in this paragraph.

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13th December, 1948.