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NUMBER OF RESO-

LUTIONS DEALING

THEREWITH.

I-VII, IX-XI, XIV, XV, VIII.

XII, XIII.

IX-XIII.

V. VI.

I. II. III.

XVII (i). VIII.

XVII (1).

IX, XI.

XVII (ii).

XVII (iii).

XIV, XV,

XVII (iv).

XVI.

XVII (v).

XIX.

XVIII.

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Appendix A.

TERMS OF REFERENCE.

The object in view is to improve Education in all grades by discri- minating more clearly between schools devoted to each Standard of Educa- tion and by making the Staff more proportionate to the number of scholars. As the amount spent on Education cannot at present be appreciably increased, the recommendations should not involve an excess over the present vote together with any additional revenue raised by fees of scholars.

1. What alterations are required in the Grant Code to meet

changed conditions :—

(a.) To improve the quality of Education especially in Upper Grade Schools and to fit scholars to qualify for a University career, etc., while providing for the poorer class who cannot remain long at school.

(b.) To enable Government to maintain a control over

the amount spent on Education.

2. Should any alteration be made in the method of awarding the Grant, based on efficiency and moral discipline instead of on numbers only.

3. What should be the proportion of English and Chinese Staff to

pupils and inter se,

4. How ensure that Chinese masters are qualified in the art of teaching, and how far may English mistresses replace masters in lower classes and Lower Grade Schools.

5. How do away with the alleged excessive proportion of pupils in the lower classes? Should Lower Grade Anglo-Chinese Schools (both Government and Grant) be established to provide for the class thus excluded who desire to learn English but can only pay low fees and intend to stay only about three years.

Should the proportion of pupils in the lower classes of Upper Grade Schools be limited to a number sufficient only to feed the Upper Classes?

Should the Grant in these schools be higher than that for Lower Grade Schools in view of the higher cost of Education, since they are become in fact instead of in name only, Upper Grade Schools. In order to secure from these schools the pupils who intend to remain and reach the upper classes should the fees be higher (the Education being more costly and the class of pupils better able to pay) and should Grant Schools insist on a fee corresponding to that in Government Schools to prevent discrimination except in the case of author- ised free or assisted scholars?

Should any Entrance Examination be instituted, and any age limit and system of superannuation by classes or standards? 6. In order to provide for poor pupils who desire to enter Upper Grade Schools and remain, what system of scholarships should be instituted between the various grades of schools.

7. Should any preference (by extra grant or by reduced fees in Government Schools) be given to children of British Subjects, or of Residents, or to Boarders, or when more than one of a family attends school?

8. Should any recommendations which the Committee may make be specially modified in regard to Girls Schools, Vernacular or Anglo-Chinese?

9. Should any particular conditions be attached to Queen's College?