The Chinese Government has uolifed the Council that pupils of the Couneit's Secondary Schools for Chinese will be allowed to participate, it they so desire, in the Government Joint graduation examinations for iddio school students in Shanghai. Students who pass these examinations will qualify for admission to Chinese stitutions of higher learning on the same terms as those accorded [graduates of Government and private Chinese Secondary Schools, Hitherto pupils attending the Municipal Coun fil Schools have been unable to enter for the Chinese Government examina ton because the S.M.C. schools were Met recognized by. the Ministry of Education, This disability has now been removed.
"The Municipal Council's schools are to be considered as a special group. {in this connexion it was stated in a letter from the Council to the Com missioner of Education, Shanghai City Government:—
"It is the desire of the Council that its schools for Chinese students shall conform as far as possible in curriculum and administration with the rules and regulations of the Ministry of Education, but it should be clearly understood that the special character of these schools as established by the Municipal Council of the International Settlement, administered through its Board of Education, renders some fof the regulations inapplicable in The first list of 37 candidates from the " Council's " Secondary Schools wishing to enter for the June examination has been sent to the Commissioner of Education.
"The Municipal Council has express sed its appreciation, and also that of the Education Board, of the Ministry's faction in this matter.
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