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4. Education.
Mr. Dorman said that from discussions with
Mr. Nicoll it appeared that Bishop Hall had suggested that it would be advisable for the Government to take over all schools in Hong Kong; this however was not practicable. Bishop Hall had also said that there were 50,000 children in Hong Kong not attending school.
Miss Gwilliam said that in her visit to Hong Kong sho had been more interested in what was being tau ht and how, rather than who and how many. She felt strongly that
remarkable recovery from education in Hong Kong had made
from the devastation caused by the war and thought that Hong Kong should do more to "tell the world" about its achievements in this field.
He
The Governor said that although he could not vouch for Bishop Hall's figure of 50,000 children not attending school this was probably about correct. estimated that to provide schools for these 50,000 would cost about $50 million. He went on to mention further points of interest in connection with education in, Hong Kong
(i)
(ii)
text books on civics were very shortly
to be produced
new text books generally were being prepared
(iii) King's College Primary School for 1,000 students and Queen's College Secondary School for 800 would be ready in September 1950
(iv) the number of children in Government schools
had doubled in the past two years.
After further discussion it was agreed that
Hong Kong had an extremely good record in the educational field and that there was here no case to be answered.
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