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TRINIDAD. 



The report of the inspector of schools for 1878-79 afforc 

 the following information : — 





Years. 

 1868 

 1877 

 1879 (6 months) 



No. of 



Schools. 



35 



72 



No. of 

 Pupils. 

 2,836 

 5,801 

 6,290 



Net expenditure by Government in 1878 : — 



Government Schools 

 San Fernando Schools 

 Assisted Schools ... 

 Royal College 

 Affiliated Schools ... 

 Education Department 

 Examinations, &c. 



Average 

 Attendance. 

 1,333 

 3,695 

 4.228 



£6,913 



221 



769 



2,160 



1,000 



1,035 



208 



£12,306 



Taking the population at the end of 1880 at 145,000, 

 have 4*48 pupils per 1,000 inhabitants. 



Assisted Schools. 

 Expenditure 



Income ... ... 



Contributed by the Managers 



£2,961 

 2,689 



272 



There are, in addition to the above public establishmen 

 several private institutions, in which is afforded educati 

 superior to that which is imparted at the public schools. Th 

 may be said to be schools where infants of the better classes 

 trained for a higher course of instruction. 



I should be allowed to say a few words respecting t 

 Seminary of Saint Joseph, known here as the " Convent." 

 was established here in the year 1836, for the education 

 young ladies, by the Congregation of Saint Joseph de Cluny 

 religious sisterhood originating in France not many years ago 

 for the special purpose of diffusing instruction throughout the 

 colonies. The Seminary of Saint Joseph has a complete appoint- 

 ment of nuns for the different branches in the education of 

 youth. The English and French languages are taught therein 

 together with sacred and profane history, geography, 

 arithmetic. Needle and fancy work also form an essential pa 

 of the training. Music and drawing constitute separate branches, 

 as accomplishments. The pupils are boarded, or received as day 

 scholars. The boarded pupils are divided into two classes: 

 those who are found in all necessaries by the establishment, and 



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