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EDUCATION IN HONG KONG

DEPARTMENTAL REPORT FOR THE

YEAR 1932

1,063 SCHOOLS AND 70,000 PUPILS

A very interesting report on the Education department during 1932 has been issued by the Director of Education. We give the following extracts to show the extent of the work :--

There were 1,063 schools ta 1932 and the number of pupita in attendance was 70,759 as compared with 68,593 in 1931.

Of the 1.060 schools controlled by the Education Department in 1932 nineteen were provided schools. The cost of their equip. ment and maintenance is a charge on the colonial revenues and, except for a few, temporary appointments, the teachers are civil servants on the permanent establishment of the Colony.

Of the 1,041 unprovided schools 314 are partly dependent on assistance from public funds. The remaining 727 unprovided schools are subject to registration and inspection by the Educa." tion Department but receive no financial assistance from funds at the disposal of the Director of Education, There are three uncontrolled schools,

REVIEW OF THE SCHOOLS

possible to extend the school by adding a Lower Primary Division thereto.

Arrangements have, however, been made for the introduction of Physical Training.

Technical Institute,

shorthand schools which are cor marcial rather than technical: there are carpentry classes atta few schools.

Expenditure and Esvenue. The following figures show com- parison with 1831.

Provided

1031. 1932.

schools Aided schools Direction and

$1,285,087 81,181,419

285,140

317,425

123,104

133,913

25,705

23,525

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8,432 6,903

Inspection Students in

Training Miscellaneous

School fees collected

Net expendi-

ture

$1,707,558 81,063,190 j

228,219 258,381

.81,479,279 1,404,809

British Schools,

Central British School-Head- master, Mr. G. F. Nightingale. Maximum enrolment was 306. Average attendance 230-an increase of fifteen.

Of Form VI, five ware success- ful in the Hong Kong University Examinations, one passing the Ma trículation and four the Senior Local, with four distinctions in English. Of Form V. ton passed the Junior Local Examination with: seven distinctions in English, one in Chemistry and one in Music,

A number of old boys are doing well at the Universities at home. and one, Gerrard, gained his in- bernational cap for Rugby. At the Inter-Schools Sports the "competi tions from this School were run being awarded the Victor Ludorum ners-up for first place, D. Blake Cap

'Provided Schools. These are either schools where the medium of instruction is. Eng- lish or mostly English, or schools where the medium of instruction is Chinese. The former, sixteen in number (including the Technical Institute), are known as "English" į schools; the lattar, of which there are three, as "Vernacular" schools Technical Institute, a report of The Teachers' Classes held at the Of the four English schools, which will found in Chapter T, olassed as "secondary schools two are boys and one is for girls. provide a useful although unpre tentious and inexpensive opportun- These three schools have primary

Kowloon Junior School, departments. The fourth, the Cen-ity for teachers to improve them

Headmistress, Miss Cooper, B.A. tral British School, which admits selves and the quality of their tea- ching The English Classes were

Maximum enrolment Was 101. boys and girls, has no primary de attended by forty-two teachers of Average attendance an increase whom two were in provided schools, of six. Twenty children were pro-

moted to Central British School. ¡ of these forty-two thirty were men and twelve women. The Vernaçu At the Preparatory Examination lar Classes were attended by one of the Royal Drawing Society hundred and eighty-four of whom twenty-six entered and all passed fifty-one were men and one hun-twenty-four with honours. dred and thirty-three women,

partment.

Of the eleven English schools, classed as "primary" schools three admit boys and girls preparing for the Central British School.

In those English schools which are attended by Chinese the study of English and Chinese is carried on side by side, the pari pasau system requiring that promotion shall depend on proficiency in both languages.

Of the three provided vernacular schools one has a seven years course and includes a Normal depart ment.

Alded Schools. There are thirteen Grant-in-Aid English schools, of which seven are for boys and six for girls

There are 203 subsidised verum cular schools.

The difference between Grant in-Aid" and "Subsidised" schools lies in the fact that assistance to the former is implemented under the regulations of the Grant Code, while the system of quarterly paid subsidies is found more suitable in the case of Vernacular schools.

Aided Schools.

The school held its first annual sports on the Kowloon Cricket Club ground in March Alist overy child took active part in There were 5,425 children in at them. tendance at the thirteen English Quarry Bay School,-Headmis schools compared with 4,898 fortress, Miss Catton. Maximum e- twelve schoole in 1981. All of the rolment was 69. Average attend- schools held at least the minimum dance 54 (28 in 1931). The increase number of meetings required by is due to the closing down of the Grant Code Article 28,

Victoria British School.

The Ying Wah Boys' College was added to the list of Grant-in-Aid Schools. Although this school pos- esses both a Secondary and Pri- raary Department, a Grant-in-Aid is paid in respect of the Primary Department only

Inspectors Annual Reports show that very satisfactory work is be- ing done in these schools and in all cases the maximum grants were recommended.*

Another 'mistress has been added.

to the staff."

The Tramway Company, the Headmistress and, the Kindergar ten Mistress have made most satis- factory

arrangements whereby small children are conveyed to the School from distant parts of the Colony:

Excellent work is done by every- one connected with this school.

Football matches have been play The Munsang College, Kowlooned with the Garrison School. The City, has been added to the list of Brownies Pack, numbering seven- schools receiving financial as teen, is flourishing.. In 1032 there were 814 unaided

sistance from public funds. A Vernacular schools and 113 unaid-grant of 86,000 was made in 1932. od English schools.

Unaided Schools.

Provided Schools-British. The total number of children cn rolled in these four schools was 819 as compared with 515 in 1931.

Victoria British School was clos- ed at the end of 1831. While it was possible to do this owing to the proximity of a similar provid- od school for young children at Quarry Bay. the two schools in Kowloon have had difficulty in finding accommodation, for all who deserve admission. The increasing Bumber of British children resident in the peninsula and the growing tendency among parents to have their children educated in the Cb lony instead of sending them to Europa has already strained the accommodation. in these two schools and it is hoped that circumstances will allow the new Central British School to be" erected, at an early date. ON

- Provided Schools-English.

There are eleven of these, among which is the "District" school for Indians where Urdu takes the plac of Chinese. The total number en- rolled in 1932 was 3627 as compared with 3378 in 1031,

The grant will be reviewed annual- Jy.

In 1832 these numbered 300 of which four were Grant-in-Aid Schools for girls classed in Table II aa "Secondary" schools.

four schools were in 1932 paid on The Capitation Grants, for these 814 basis as against $12 in the previous year.

Schools for Girls.

Two outstanding events of the year were the Spring Festival and the Prize Distribution in Decem- ber' when the pupils gave a wonder- ful performance of "The Blue Bird."

Peak School. Headmistress, M. Stark, M. A. Maximum enrol- attendance fifty-four. ment was seventy-one. Average

Additional apparatus was pro- vided for the Gymnasium and the Kindergarten.

The School like Quarry Bay Of the 70,579 children under In-School has now a Percussion Band. struction in the schools of the Co- The services of these Bands have requisitioned by the local ony during 1932, 21,816 or rather been more than 30 per cent, of the whole Broadcasting Station. wore attending schoole for girls or were girls attending mixed schools. The following figures show com- parison with 1831

1931. 1832 (a) In provided schools 1,210 1,117 In aided schools... 9,018 10,529 In unaided schools 8,949, 10,169

(b) In Vernacular

Schools

In English Schoole

21,077 21,815

Children are taking a greater interest in Nature Study and out- door sketching.

The general work of the, school is very satisfactory.

Garnes.

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All schools, as far as is practice able, indulge in all the usual school games. Most of them speci alise in Swimming during the hot .......17,877 17,930 season, and some of them give in- struction in Life-Saving The old 3,200 3,985 Chinese pastimes kite flying and shuttle-cock have almost died out. Hiking has increased in popularity.

91,077 21,815 Of the 1,117 in provided schoola The total number enrolled in the 258 were in the mixed schools for four Lower Grade Schools was 374 British children. The Technical as compared with 418 in 1931. Institute accounted for 182. There The three rural English schools were 169 in attendance at the were established with the intention Vernacular Normal School for Wo- of giving a wider, opportunity to men and the remainder 593 were the country boy but they present at the Belilios Public School.

Technical Education.

a problem which is not peculiar to this colony. It is not practicable to confine attendance to boys who, The Technical Institute, was in- by their economic circumstances or stituted many years ago on the their ability to win scholarships, initiative of Sir Matthew Nathan, will continue their English educathen Governor of Hong Kong. It tion elsewhere to the stage whare started its career as "Evening it becomes of cultural value. The Continuation Classes" and these tisk bas to be taken of imparting have ever since played a very 180- that proverbially dangerous modi- ful part in the education system cum of English which, provides a of the colony. Some time after the way out of one. vocation, for which classes had been going the a boy is by nature fitted, without name was changed to "Technical facilitating his entry into another Institute." The subjecte now be and wider sphere of usefulness. ing taken by those in attendance Provided Schools-Vernsonlar. are for the most part commercial The University Examination re-

or general or concerned with tow sults of the Vernacular Middle ching. School at the end of 1982 were The Salesian Industrial School again disappointing us only two is the chief example of organised out of eight passed.

technical education in the colony. The project of a new school A few classes in technical; subjects building for the Vernacular Nor-1 are being conducted under the mal School for Women not having; suspices of the Technical Institute i yet been realized, it has not been there are a few type-writing and

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