( 21 ) 
at Kuala Lumpor in the Federated Malay States, 
the Colony projected Normal Classes for teachers 
already engaged in the profession, at all three Settle- 
ments. Penang and Taiping got classes in 1907; 
Ipoh in 1909; Malacca in 1913. These classes are 
praised as successful down to 1914, when a Com- 
mission was appointed to consider improvements in 
Singapore. It recommended a whole-time instructor 
and a revised syllabus and spoke of a training 
school as an ultimate ideal. The war frustrated the 
first of these recommendations. But the Normal 
Classes again did good work under great difficulties. 
The subjects studied are English, Arithmetic, 
Geography, the Theory and Practice of Teaching, 
blackboard drawing, general knowledge, and history 
and the course is theoretically for two years, though 
many students take longer to pass. 
A class for pupil or student teachers, who spent 
their whole time getting practice in model lessons 
and attending the Normal Classes, was started in 
1914 in Singapore but discontinued in 1922. 
In 1918 an Educational Conference recommended 
sending selected local teachers to Hongkong Univer- 
sity, and down to the present day the Governments 
of the Colony and Federated Malay States give 
scholarships for 2 to 4 years to promising men who 
engage to work in a Government or aided school 
for 5 years on their return. 
Proposals to open several Training Colleges for 
Teachers throughout Malaya have been abandoned, 
and it has been decided that all shall be sent to 
Raffles College Singapore, for which a world-wide 
architectural competition closes at the end of 1923. 
2,i - 4 ij 25 1, 
