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HONG KONG ANNUAL REPORT, 1953

tuition. Many private schools, however, are as good education- ally as those in other categories. The average are of entering and leaving private and subsidized schools was 7.5 and 13.5 years for primary, and 14.5 and 19.5 for secondary schools.

The University of Hong Kong is an independent body which receives an annual grant from Government HK$1,500,000.

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Actual government expenditure on education, during the year ending 31st July, was $26,654,869. Recurrent expenditure was $10,310,555, which included $8,279,811 on staff salaries, $552,544 on the maintenance and repair of school buildings and $1,478,200 on other charges. Capital expenditure, for the same period, on buildings, furniture and equipment was $2,096,795. Expenditure on grants-in-aid and subsidies was $12,744,047. Miscellaneous payments included $1,472 for the Amenities Fund for Colonial students in the United Kingdom, $2,000 to the Hong Kong Teachers' Association and the sum of $1,500,000 to Hong Kong University, as noted above.

Expenditure by other departments on education was $330,757. Estimated expenditure on education by voluntary organizations was just over $5,000,000, in addition to $28,000,000 fee receipts from private and subsidized schools.

The number of schools and total enrolment as at 30th June, 1953, was as follows:

(The increase in the number of children in schools since 1946 is illustrated in the diagram facing page 59)

No. of

Enrol-

Schools

ment

No. of Teachers

Government

40

15,924

516

Grant-aided

20 14,130

635

Subsidized

328

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42,930

1,388

Private

664

131,181

6,658

Special Afternoon Classes

9,725

1,052

213,890

9,197

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