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RECOMMENDATIONS.

Staff. —Qualifications.---Ratio of English and Chinese masters to pupils,

and to one another.-English mistresses.

I.

All Chinese masters in Government and Grant Schools, except such as may be specially exempted upon such grounds as long experience or previous training, should go through a three years course of training at the Technical Institute,

11.

Facilities should be granted in the Norinal Class at Queen's College for the training of pupil teachers from Grant Schools.

Note.--Pupil teachers from the three Upper Grade District Schools already attend

this Class.

It is not intended by this recommendation to discourage such schools as may prefer to do so froni training their own pupil teachers.

III.

Certificated English mistresses may be substituted for Chinese Masters in the Lower Classes of Upper Grade Schools, and in Lower Grade Schools.

IV.

Forty should be considered the maximum number of pupils which can be taught effici- ently by one English or Chinese master.

V.

Lower Grade Schools for Chinese and the Lower Classes of Upper Grade Schools for Chinese should be considered to be adequately staffed, if, in addition to being under adequate European supervision, for every Division of not more than forty pupils there is one second- year Chinese master.

Provided that if one third-year Chinese master or a certificated English mistress be sub- stituted for one second-year Chinese master, then one first-year Chinese master may be substituted for another second-year Chinese master.

Note. Thus for any three Divisions in a Lower Grade School or in the Lower Classes of an Upper Grade School, there would be the following alternatives

of Staff :--

(a.) Three second-year masters;

(b.) One third-year master, or certificated English mistress;

One second-year master;

One first-year master.

VI.

The Remove and Upper Classes of a school for Chinese should be considered adequately staffed, if the proportion of English to Chinese masters is not less than two to three.

VII.

Since no third-year course has hitherto been given at the Technical Institute, reasonable time should be given to Grant Schools to provide themselves with adequate Chinese Staffs in the following way :-

In assessing the adequacy of Chinese Staffs for the school year ending in 1911, a second-year master should be accepted in place of a third-year master, and a first-year master should be accepted in place of a second-year master; and for 1912, a second-year master should be accepted in place of a third-year master.

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