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of enquiry was appointed. Its report was a complete 
vindication of the change. It recommended certain 
minor modifications to make for smoother adminis- 
trative working. It suggested that European Mis- 
sionary teachers, who are graduates of British 
Universities and devote all their time to their 
schools, should be paid at Government rates and 
that Government should defray half-pay leave for 
missionary teachers. It recommended that Govern- 
ment should pay half the cost of new buildings and 
of structural repairs to old. And it recommended 
central classes for the study of science, which 
entails laboratories and a specialized staff. Ap- 
pointed to criticize, it found it had to bless the 
new system. 
The amount of grants asked for hitherto for verna- 
cular schools has been negligible. 
4. THE ENGLISH SCHOOLS. 
(a). Their Curriculum, Types, etc. 
Up to 1891 there were only six standards in the 
English schools of the Colony: in that year the 
creation of Standard VII added another year to the 
course. (It was not until 1908 that the same papers 
were set for the Standard VII examination in the 
Colony and the Federated Malay States) . 
The only serious secondary work, before the Cam- 
bridge Local Examinations were first taken in 1891, 
was the preparation for the Queen’s Scholarships, 
given by Government from 1885 “ to allow promising 
boys an opportunity of completing their studies in 
England and to encourage a number of boys to 
remain in school and acquire a really useful 
