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HONG KONG DAILYPRESS, SATURDAY, JUNE 28, 1930.
THOUSAND SCHOOLS and are required to sit for the
IN THE COLONY.
REPORT OF DIRECTOR
"EDUCATION.
Matriculation ar Sanior Local and Junior Local Examinations of the University of Hong Kong. This year the entrants Bambered 214 and OFpassed.
VALUE OF EXAMINATIONS.
The aga limit for admission to Class 8 has been raised to twelve plus. These entrants are, it should: bo understood, not making their first venture into school life, as the entrance examination postulates The report of the Director at three or four years education in Education for 1929 has just been the vernacular. During the year issued and we give below the follow-Un Long school building was found ing extracts.
to be unsafe and rented premise Of the 1007 schools con have been occupied pending the trolled by the Education Do- erection of a new building. partment in 1929 twenty are direct- ly managed by Government. The cost of their equipment and main- tenance is a charge on the colonial revenues and except for a few tem- porary appointments, the teachers are civil serants on the perman cht catablishment of the Govern- ment of the Colony. Those hundred and twenty eight schools under private management are partly de pendent on assistance from public funds
The Vernacular Middle School war again unable to accommodate all The applicants for admission. At the final examination in the nor mal department seven qualified as vernacular teachers. The Inspector of Varnacular Schools reports that these teachers are sought for by heads of schools and easily find em- plcyment.
The Vernacular Normal School for Women continues its satisfac tory career and again shows a small There are also 650 other private increase in numbers: holders of schools subject to registration and the final certificates from this school inspection but receiving no financialso have no dificulty in finding al assistance from funds at the dis- poets and are doing useful work posal of the Director. of Education. A "school" is defined in the Education Ordinance as a place persons are habitually taught." All, such in stitutions fall within the control of the Education Department..
Government schools, are either schools where the medium of in- struction is English or for the most part English, or schools where the medium of instruction is Chinese.
where ten
or more
The number on the roll at the Technical Institute was 508. This institution which represents the only provision in the Colony for adult education continues to sup- ply an obvious need. Very useful are the English and Vernacular tea- chers' classes, which have been effec tive in improving the quality of the instruction in the schools of the Colony.
Grant in Ald Schools,
Of four Government English The number of these schools is Schools, usually classed as second- ary schools, three have primary de-again sixteen, the Wah Yan branch partments and eight classes take school at Kowloon having been the pupils from the first stops in added to the list. It may not be English to the Matriculation and necessary to place any more schools Senior Local Examinations of the on the Grant List in the near fu University of Hong Kong either of ture and I do not see any pressing need for an increase in the second- which copstitutes the leaving car- tificate of these schools. The twelvery departments of English Schools for the next few years. As the late primary schools fall into two
Governor said at one of his last groups-four mixed schools being preparatory for the Central British public functions there is room for more schools which cater for that School which has no primary de partment, and eight "District" and majority of our pupils who do not Lower Grade schools, one of which stay at school beyond class 3 or 4. is a school for Indians where Urdu The pupils at the English Schools aambered 4,639 as against 4,937 takes the place of Chinese.
last year while the numbers at Ver- nacular Schools dropped from 1,011 to 987.
The control of and assistance given to Grant in Aid Schools is regulated by the Grant Code. Of these schools six are English schools for boys, six are English schosis for girls and four are Vernacular schools for girls.
It was found necessary at the beginning of the year to appoint one new Inspector of Vernacular Schools and an increase in subsidy Of the above one English school expenditure of 38,000 was incurred. for boys and ang English school This would have to be further, but for girls are lower grade schools,
at present not considerably, in- the further education of the child creased if aid were given to all ren being provided at parent in schools which merit and need it. stitutions. The remaining ten Eng-The receipt of a subsidy is a sort of hall mark and has the merit of lish schools, usually classed as se- condary schools have primary de-attracting pupils to institutions which have met with the compara, partments
tive approval of the inspectors.
-Very few of these schools ap- proach the standard of the Grant la Aid schools, por are they able to provide such staff, premises or equipment as would enable them to do so.
Educationally there is little need for these schools and the de- mand for instruction in English which calls them into existence would be more satisfactorily met by additional "District" or Lower Grade Government schools.
Up to 1913, the date, of the Educa- tion Ordinance, the policy or trend, as described by the then Director
Examinations.
It is a common practice along writers and speakers on education. a subjects to depreciate examina- tions. But there is at present nothi ing to take their place and they are likely to form part of educa tional machinery for some time to come, Nor do I think there is anything intrinsically vicious about them but they are liable to abuse. The results of the examinations among the private unaided schools reveal a serious misuse of the Local Examinations and especial-
of Education, was to encourage ly of the Junior Local. It will be Upper Grade schools, both Govern-seen that ten of these schools have ment and Grant rather than Lower secured 21 pasacs out of 151 can- Grade schools." Though this ten: didates who sat for the examina- dency has been somewhat modified tions. But though this represents sinca pre-Ordinance days, the im a pitiful waste of energy, I am not provement is mostly in the field of so concerned about the high per vernacular education and the centage of failures as about the low existence of 135 English schools in numbers entering from individual which the teaching and the Eng- schools. The selection of a few lish are for the most part of an in- candidates who are optimistically ferior quality shows that the de- supposed to have a chance of pass- mand for English is only partiallying is contrary to the object of the satisfied by the more efficient Gov ernment and Grant in Aid schools.
Government Schools.
I mentioned in my report for 1928 that Gun Club Hill School. leased since 101 from the Military Authorities for the use of Kowloon Junior School would not be avail-
able in
1929. "Parkside". WLS adapted for the purpose and has, on the whole proved satisfactory, but a large room for physical drill 18 needed. This would also be use- ful as an assembly hall
1st Class 2nd Classrolled at the Eve schools in 1999 The total number of pupils en- wan 456 as against 438 in 1928 and
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of Age will be carried 1st Class at 2nd Class Rates. Full Farë will be charged when travelling in the 2nd Class.
MONTHLY TICKETS will be increased as under :--
ADULT to 87.00 Each.
Hong Kong, 23rd June, 1980.
BruDENT to $8.00 Each.
NGAN SHING KWAN;
Manager,
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examinations, which are only of value if every boy or girl from the appropriate class is entered for them.
Every year all the boys in Class at Queen's College, King's Col lege and the Government "District Schools," viz Ellis Kadoorie School, Yaumati School, Wantsai: School
and the Indian School, sit for an examination conducted jointly by the head masters of the thess-in- stitutions, and boys from this clas in these schools do not gain admis- sion to the three senior classeA of
Queen's College and King's College by any other means. This year, ol
409 in 1927. The increase during 324 Class 4 boys, 274 or 80 per cent.
the last ten years of the number passed. Four schools were, above
of children in the British Schools the average and two below. seems to indicate that more families
From time to time; ad applica
are settling down here and regardtion is made, examinations of the ing the Colony as their horne, University of London are held at though the closing of the Sugar Re the Education Office. In 1929 there finery at Quarry Bay will affect were two Matriculation examina the attendance at the scool in that tions, one in Jaapary and one in June. These examinatióna do not district.
form any part of the educational system of the Colony but are ar- ranged for the convenience of the public.
At present the pupils of Class 1 at the Central British School ait cach year for the Matriculation Examination of the University of Hong Kong and a few for the Lon- don University Matriculation.
An annexe of five classtoords was opened in this school in 1924. Four extra rooms were added in 1928 and it is again found necessary to provide additional room of a tem porary nature which will serve till a new school building becomes available.
Two examinations of the Royal Sanitary Institute were held dur- ing the year. One teacher sat for the Teachers Certificate examina- tion of the National Froebel Union.
That the health of children in Government Schools is good is evidenced by the high average at tendance · Ás compared with total The total number of pupils on enrolment During the year, 2,552 rollin Anglo-Chinese Schools children were examined, entrants was 3,564 as against 3,236 in and re-inspections. The percentage 1993," At" Queen's College, King's of defect, which remains steady College and Belilion Public School year by year, being 37 in British for Girls the pupils of Classes 1 (Continued on ncat Column.)
CHURCH NOTICES.
ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL, Hong Kond.
Jozs 80, 1930, 2nd Sunday after
Trinity St. Peter's Day Holy Communion at 8 am. Children's Servica at 10 a.m. Mattins and Sermon at 11 a.m. Preacher Eev. B. V. Koop Evensong at 6.00p
Preacher-Rev. C. B. Shana.
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FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST,
(Branch of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mass, U.S.A.) MACDONNELL ROAD, BELOW BOWE ROAD TEAM STATION. SUNDAY SERVICE, June 29, 1930, at
11.10 0.
Sabject-CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. The Sunday School is held on Sunday Mornings at 10 o'clock.
Wednesday Evening Meeting: at 5.30 pm
Reading Room at abore address, open- Tuesday and Friday, 10 am to 12 Noon; Monday and Thursday, 5.80 to 7 p.m.
The Public is cordially invited to attend the services and visit the Reading Room
UNION CHURCH. (KENNEDY ROAD)..
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Sunbar, June 29, 1990:--
Morning worship at 11 am. Evening worship at 6 p..
Preacher at Morning and Bron
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WESLEYAN METHODIST
CHURCH,
QUEEN'S ROLD EAST. SUNDAY SERVICES, June 29, 1990--
Mering at 10.15 am.
Preacher :-Rev. Horace John-,
ston, B.
-Evening at 6 pm.
Preacher:-Mr. A. H. Gardner,
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3.00 p.m.Meeting of Ladies' Church
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and 44 in Chinese schools. Im- proyements recorded were rather more than 50 per cent.
Chickenpox affected all the Bri tish schools, there being 34 cases in two small epidemics in March and December.
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ALTERATION OF FARES.
N and From laT JULY, 1930, and until Further Notice, the
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1ST CLASS--10 Conts for First Two Sections or part thereof and
5 Cents for Each Subsequent Section or Part thereof. 2ND CLASS-5 Centa for Two Sections or Part of Two Sections, Route
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British Service Men (in Uniform) and Children under 12 Years
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MONTHLY TICKETS will be increased as under:--
STUDENTS to $3.
ADULTS to $7.
Hong Kong, June 23rd, 1930.
NOTICE.
.F. H. GLOVER Acting General Manager.
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ALTERATION OF FARES.
N and From 1er JULY, 1980, and until Further Notice, the undermentioned SCALE OF FARES.
will be in operation. C
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5 Cents for Each Subsequent Section
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2ND CLASS 5 Cents for Two Sections or Part of Two Sections.
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British Service Men (in Uniform) and Children under 12 Years of Age will be carried 1st Class at 2nd Class
Bates. Full Fare will be charged when travelling in the 2nd Class.
MONTHLY TICKETS will be increased as under:
ADULTE to $7.00, BTUDENTS to $3.00
8. T. LOUEY,
Hong Kong, 8rd June, 1930,
Manager
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