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Department asking in 1916 for a special Malayan 
Senior syllabus framed to encourage the study of 
English. In 1919 there followed a special Malayan 
Junior syllabus. Incidentally, Malay is one of the 
subjects allowed for these examinations. Thereafter 
students could take either the ordinary or the special 
Malayan Cambridge Examinations. 
From the beginning of the century the advance 
of education led to the question if there should 
not be a division into elementary and secondary 
schools. In 1902 each of the more important schools 
combined the instruction of infants, the passing of 
older scholars through the seven standards, and 
secondary classes. Time has changed this appre- 
ciably. The Government has built many primary 
schools and in each large centre there tends to grow 
up a Government secondary school. The strongest 
tendency is to make a division between (a) Infants 
and Elementary classes and (b) all classes above 
them. But the Missionary bodies, which have done 
so much for education in Malaya, prefer on religious 
grounds to train their pupils from infancy* to 
adolescence. 
There have been many notable developments since 
the beginning of the century. The direct method 
of teaching English has become universal. Kinder- 
garten and infant classes have been taken in hand. 
Elementary manual work is now done in all the 
best schools. Medical inspection of pupils has been 
introduced. Due attention is given to physical 
education, the provision of play-grounds, the en- 
couragement of Boy Scouts, Cadet Corps and all 
sports. 
Notable, too, has been the growth of enthusiasm 
among every race except the Malay for female educa- 
