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EDUCATION

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Services, while Post-Secondary Colleges and the University of Hong Kong have their own separate ordinances. Under the Educa- tion Ordinance the Director of Education has general control over education in the Colony, and is required to keep registers of schools, managers of schools, and teachers, and to ensure that satisfactory standards are maintained of school buildings, dis- cipline, registers and accounts and payment of fees, and that the conduct and efficiency of schools and teachers shall be good.

THE BOARD OF EDUCATION

The Board of Education was established in 1920 'for the purpose of assisting the Director of Education in matters pertaining to the development and improvement of education in the Colony'. Its chairman is the Director of Education, apart from whom its membership is now entirely unofficial. The Board meets regularly, and Government normally consults it on all matters of educational importance and gives it notice of proposed changes and develop- ments. The Board met four times during the year and considered many aspects of education. It devoted special attention to legisla- tion for post-secondary colleges and the planning of future educational expansion.

SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION

Government Schools are those built, equipped, and operated entirely from Government funds. There are 73 primary schools, eleven secondary schools, two secondary modern schools, two training colleges and a technical college and four evening institu- tions maintained in this fashion.

Grant Schools. These schools, which mainly give secondary education, work under the terms of the Grant Code, by which the Government pays the difference between approved expenditure and approved income. Approved expenditure includes salaries, leave pay, passages for teachers who are so entitled, and other charges. Alternatively, a block grant may be made and grants may also be made up to 50 per cent of the cost of new buildings, equipment and major repairs.

Subsidized Schools are mainly primary schools operating under the Subsidy Code. The subsidy, like that paid under the Grant