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of the Junior Cambridge Examination. Other 
schools in Singapore and the Federated Malay States 
teach individual subjects such as shorthand, book- 
keeping and type-writing. In Penang book-keeping 
is taught as a form subject in the secondary depart- 
ments of all the boys’ schools and facilities are 
afforded for learning shorthand and typewriting. 
There is also a shorthand class for girls at the 
Convent, Penang. 
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5. TECHNICAL AND INDUSTRIAL 
EDUCATION. 
In 1902 a Commission appointed by the Government 
to enquire into English education in the Colony 
devoted one section of its report to technical instruc- 
tion. It found insufficient demand for a technical 
school. Moreover firms preferred apprentices to 
learn practical engineering in shops, though it was 
admitted that a preliminary course of mensuration, 
elementary mechanics, the use of tools, and 
mechanical and geometrical drawing would be of 
great use. It urged the equipment of laboratories 
for Raffles Institution in Singapore and the Free 
School in Penang and the appointment of a master 
for each with experience in technical work. It 
recommended that in view of the demand for sur- 
veyors that subject should be taught at Raffles 
Institution. 
In 1917 another Commission (containing no officers 
of the Education Department) still found the attrac- 
tions of a commercial career so great in the Colony 
that it could not advise “ large expenditure upon a 
fully equipped and strongly staffed technical school,” 
but it pressed for the appointment of a qualified 
