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was thus established that the basis standards. It has been our policy The Queen Elizabeth School will of any child's education must be a since the war to bring these two be the first co-educational Anglo- competent knowledge of his mother streams more closely together. Our Chinese Secondary School to be built tongue.

Chinese middle schools now employ by Government. It is hoped to syllabi and text-books more strongly complete the school before September to concentrate the bulk of its finan- coloured by Western influences and of this year, in time for the new Classes for the new school. cial support on secondary schools practices so that, while preserving a term.

commenced in September providing an education in English: strong Chinese cultural basis, they however, but the rising standards of vernacu- Their students are prepared for the the afternoons at the King's College also for "modern" subjects. of last year and are being held in lar education, coupled with a wave of educational reform in China, led Hongkong Chinese School Certificate premises in Bonham Road until the Examination which is the counter- Queen Elizabeth School's own build- the establishment during the 'twenties of a few large Chinese part of the older English School ing is completed and ready for oc- middle schools, which are now great-

Certificate Examination."

cupation. ly increased in number, and are such Later, Mr. Crozier said: "Briefly, At present, there are 780 pupils an important feature of our educa- the pattern that has now been built receiving instruction under the tem- tional system. These schools, until up is this: a more liberal vernacular porary arrangement, and these were the Pacific War, followed the same primary system composed of Govern- transferred from secondary classes curriculum and syllabi as similar ment subsidised and private schools in other Government schools where schools in China, and so there grew that give a six-year basic education. facilities for secondary education up a dual secondary system: one For many children formal education were inadequate. These included part receiving instruction and taught ends at that stage. For others, about Ellis Kadoorie School, Wanchal in accordance with British practices, one child in four, there is a second- Government School, Northcote Train- the other using the Chinese language ary system, entry to which is becom-

ing College Attached School and and employing Chinese methods and ing increasingly selective, consisting are about 300 more pupils at Yau- Yaumati Government School. There

of Government, aided от private mati School who will be transferred Anglo-Chinese or Chinese schools. to Queen Elizabeth School next term. Most of them are of the grammar so it is probable that there will be school type, but we are trying to no admission of other new pupils in provide as an alternative secondary the new establishment. modern or secondary technical schools which would be more suited built around three sides of a large, The three-storeyed school is being for children with aptitudes of a more

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practical kind. Beyond that is the is basically similar in design to open concrete-paved quadrangle, and Evening School for Higher Chinese Studies, the Technical College for commercial and industrial training, adult evening classes, the Teacher- training colleges and at the apex of the triangle, the University."

The practice of mixed classes in secondary schools largely arose through shortage of school places in the post-war period. The subsidised and private primary schools are over- whelmingly co-educational and SO also are the private secondary schools. There still remains much to be done to develop the private mixed second- ary schools into true co-educational establishments, however. The girls in such schools are often handicap- ped compared with those who attend girls' schools, where provision is made for their special needs. On the other hand, there are indications, in the success of dramatic and similar activities, that co-education could have its rightful place in the second- ary stage.

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