The information with regard to female students is very interesting. Altogether there are 418,170 female students, as compared with 6,201,622 male students, the women constitating 6.31 per cent. of the whole. Most of the women study in the normal schools, which. have a female enrollment of 6,724 or 17.5€ per cent. of the whole. The largest of these clearly come from private tuition or private schools, since only 35,182 and 368.560 attend the Higher and Lower Primary Schools fy, respectively. Only 2.42 per cent. of the students of the universities are women. A table gives figures as to the type of schoo] women prefer to attend: Women, National Colleges 405 Provincial Colleges 7 Private Colleges 125 Mission and Foreign Colleges 350
Teaching is popular with women students in China as elsewhere, for of the female enrollment in coi-leges 284 are studying to teach. There is no apparent vocational direction of women, their efforts being scattered everywhere, even to law in this lawless country, 13 being in law colleges, 17 in_medicine and 3 in commerce. Peking shows up most favourably for women in colleges, having 4.78 pet cent. This is probably due to the ce-educational influence of the National University and the presence
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