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Appendix B.

SUPPLEMENTARY QUESTION REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE.

Nomenclature.

The Committee having been requested to formulate a more convenient nomenclature for schools and the component parts and sections thereof, and for the different classes of teachers which they employ, offer the following suggestions:-

For the expressions Anglo-Chinese, Anglo-Indian, Anglo-Portuguese Schools, there should be subsistuted the expression English Schools, (mean schools where English is the medium of instruction) followed if necessary by words of amplification, e... English School for Indians. The Kowloon and Victoria Schools should as at present be called British Schools.

For the expression Anglo-Chinese Master should be substituted the expression Chinese Master. A Chinese employed in teaching the Chinese written language should be called a Vernacular Master.

Classes in which the Chinese written language is taught should be called Vernacular Classes, or collectively, the Fernocular Süle; and the expression English Classes and English Side should be similarly employed. A Vernacular School should, as now, connote one where Chinese is the sole medium of instruction.

The term Standard should be confined to Vernacular Schools. Standard I should be the lowest. Roman numerals should be used to designate Standards. In English Schools the lowest class (English or Vernacular) should be Class 8. Arabic numerals should be used to designate the Classes. Vernacular Classes in English Schools should be prefixed by a capital V. Thus V Class 5 would mean the fourth Vernacular Class counting from the bottom.

Lower Grade Schools should mean as now schools intended to give a three years' course- of instruction only. The three lowest classes of an Upper Grade School should be called the Lower Classes (8 to 6). The next two should be called the Remove Classes or the Remove (5 and 4) and the remainder be called the Upper Classes. In this way all chance of ambi- guity between Upper School and Upper Grade School, Lower School and Lower Grade School. will be removed.

If it is necessary by reason either of great numbers or of differentiation of studies among boys of equal standing to subdivide a class, the sub-divisions should be distinguished by capi- tal letters, and called the A, B,...Divisions.

If it is desired to promote pupils half-yearly instead of yearly, Classes may be divided into Upper and Lower Halves, e.., Upper Fourth (4 i), Vernacular Lower Third, (V 3 ii).

A Chinese Master who has passed his first year's course at the Technical Institute may be called a "first-year" Master, and similarly for the second and third years.