Bickerton.— On University and General Education. 1G1 



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Scholarships, etc., etc. 

 1. Special subject elementary scholarships. — In the elementary schools 

 there are the regular subjects, and the paid subjects. There should be scholar- 

 ships awarded on the result of the master's quarterly examination in the 

 ordinary subjects, entitling the holders to attend the extra subjects free. The 

 following three exhibitions and scholarships would be awarded on the result of 

 the annual senior elementary examinations, and be held for three year?. 

 2. Local elementary exhibitions. — 1 per cent, of the boys attending an element- 

 ary school should have an exhibition entitling them to free admission to the 

 ordinary subjects of the advanced schools. 3. Colonial elementary exhibi- 

 tions. — 1 per cent, of all the boys attending elementary schools in the 

 colony to receive an exhibition entitling them to free admission to the 

 ordinary subjects of the advanced schools, with a small subsistence stipend. 

 4. Advanced colonial scholarships. — Scholarships to the number of 3 per cent, 

 of the boys attending advanced schools, entitling their holders to free admission 

 to the ordinary and extra subjects of the advanced school, and to a prize of 

 books. A similar system of exhibitions, etc., should exist in the advanced 

 schools for the extra subjects, and for giving admission to the college classes, 

 and should be called respectively : — 5. Special subject advanced scholarships. 

 6. Local advanced exhibitions. 7. Colonial advanced exhibitions. 8. Colonial 

 college scholarships. The three latter would be given as the result of the senior 

 advanced examinations. The special scholarships, Nos. 1 and 5, and the local 

 exhibitions, 2 and 6, would be held only by boys of the individual schools to 

 which the scholarships, etc., were allotted. The colonial exhibitions, Nos. 3 

 and 7, would be open to all boys attending State schools, and would be awarded 

 on merit only, without giving preference to any individual schools. The 

 colonial scholarships Nos. 4, and 8, will be open to all competitors ; the first 

 under thirteen, and the latter under fifteen years of age. 9. At the matricu- 

 lation examination of the university there should be scholarships called 

 university scholarships. The special subject scholarships, 1 and 5, may be 

 held at the same time as an exhibition, etc., but one only of Nos. 2 3 4 

 6, 7, 8, and 9, could be held by a boy at once. In the examinations the first 

 boys on the list to the number of scholarships given would be allotted colonial 

 scholarships. These would hold the highest status. The next boys on the list 

 attending State schools only would be awarded the colonial exhibitions. Then 

 after these, the first boys in each individual school, not included in the above 

 would have the local exhibitions. Thus, in any school, the colonial seholar- 



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