S.M-C. Sanction Payment of Tls. 41,250
'The Municipal Council last Wednesday' sanctioned the payment to '87 Chinese private schools in the Settlement of Grants-in-Aid totalling Tis, 41,260 for the first six months of the current year.
This is the first vote to Chinese schools under the new education Policy of the Council to' render financial assistance to deserving private educational institutions conducted in the Settlement, the funds to go towards improvement of accommoda ation and educational facilities offer. ed. Certain foreign schools received grants totalling Tis, 67,500 in 1981, But payment to Chinese schools could not be effected by reason of circumstances beyond the Council control.
The foreign vote for the first half of 1992 is at the same rate as last year, the only change being the transfer to another school of a sum given one school last year on the Understanding this would be the only payment.
The Chinese Bureau of Education Pality gave valuable
to receive grants, the applications the selection of the Chinese schools ived by that Department being with recommendations. A Chinese Committee on Grants-inlaid set up by the Couneit at the request of the SM.C. Board of Education, laid down 'a procedure to govern the grants" to. middle and primary Schools; on this procedure being approved by the Education Board and the Council, the Chinese Committee examined the applications and other documents submitted by the schools, making recommendations thereon for payment to 57 schools of a total sum of Tls. $2500 this year, the allotments varying from' Tls. 14,000 to the Y.MLC.A. Secondary School to Tls. 150 each to small primary schools.
The qualified schools are in four grades." Nine Grade I schools are Set down to receive a total of Tls. 42,100 this year, sixteen Grade schools Tls. 26,000, fifteen Grade 11D, schools Tls. 9,050, and seventeen Grade IV schools Tls. 5,250. Although this allocation "has been made, it is subject to review before any further payment is made.
Subsequent to receipt of the recommendations of the Chinese Committee, the Commissioner of Public Health and the Acting Treasurer and Controller were asked to report upon the Schools selected to Feceive™ assistance. These reports were before the Council on Wednesday, when it was noted that, the Health Department had not yet been able to: conduct a thorough inepeetion of alf the schools, but that considerable proportion of them had been passed as reasonably satis factory; the financial statements submitted by all schools had been.
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