Considerable stir has been created here by a letter signed by Mr. Cheng Hsiang-mo, principal of a Chinese school in the Chinese city, and which was delivered today to the residences of important Chinese residents in the British and French Conéessions by messengers from the Mayor's office.
The letter refers to the inconvenient ces occasioned by the barriers around the Concessions. Owing to their protection of hostile elements, the letter says, the Concessions are to the necessity of having New Type of School Recommended for Great Britain Special Committee Finds in Favour of Technical Training for Selected Scholars those barriers erected The. letter urges Chinese residents in the Concessions to make representations demanding, among other things, the right to fly the five-barred fag in the Concessions; the formation 9f an international police corps under the control of the China safety London, Dec. 30.
The Consultative Committee, in a Report on its enquiry, which has been proceeding for five years, expresses the view that secondary education in Britain in the past has been too ex-elusively academic and recommends a new type of school, to be called "technical high school," to take selected boys at eleven years and to provide them with a five years' course.
In the first two years the curriculum will be similar to. other secondary schools. Later the course will follow more modern lines, with science as its central feature.
A new type of internal examination with a leaving certificate, to be taken at sixteen is also suggested. Technical high schools are to be developed out of the present junior technical schools in building and engineering and they will be equivalent in status to grammar schools.
The Committee considers that gram-it schools should, continue as hitherto to provide education mainly for boys and girls likely to go to University and urges that greater freedom be allowed schools in shaping their curriculum.
Suggestions for ensuring that pupils [shall be allowed to develop their individual tastes and capacities are [made and the Committee stresses the importance of good teaching of spoken and written English as a central feature of the curriculum in these schools.
Looking beyond these immediate proposals the Commitice favours a single national system of schools for Pupils between eleven and sixteen. In this system there would be grammar schools, technical high schools, modern selective schools and senior schools. The Committee thinks that ultimately all these types should be under one secondary code—Wireless through Reuter, Bureau; the re-organization of the Councils and the dismissal of police officers who are protecting anti-Government elements, The letter is featured in Chinese and Japanese papers this morning, ich report that copies have also been sent to the British and French Consuls here.—Reuter.
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