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These schools need not necessarily be staffed by trained or certificated teachers.
The teachers should be paid on a per caput basis.
The course of instruction should be of the simplest possible character, and should be
restricted virtually to such basic subjects as religious instruction, reading and writing of
the home language, and arithmetic.
The length of the school day need not be five hours, and the vacations, both for this type
of school and that referred to in the preceding section, should be so arraneed as to suit the
seasonal occupations on the farms.
SECONDARY SCHOOLS.
(30) There are at present four schools in the Province with facilities for the secondary
education of coloured pupils. These are situated at Cape Town, Wynberg, Kimberley and
Port Elizabeth. The rural and the smaller urban centres have at present no such facilities.
The Commission recommends that new centres for secondary education should be estab-
lished, as the need arises, at selected country towns, especially in the Western and Souti-
western areas.
(31) The Commission is of opinion that, in public schools with secondary classes, there
should be a more liberal application of the facilities for free secondary education for
promising coloured pupils whose parents are unable to pay tuition fees.
The regulation regarding 30 per cent. fee remissions, which applies to secondary schools.
is especially necessary for coloured secondary schools.
The amount of fee remissions in some schools does not nearly approach the 30 per cent.
allowed by regulation, with the result that pupils who have the ability to take a secondary
course with profit are unable to do so on account of poverty.
. (32). The Commission recommends the introduction of a system of boarding and transport
bursaries to enable promising coloured pupils from the rural areas to receive some form of
secondary education in keeping with their aptitude, requirements and circumstances.
The cost of such a scheme would be comparatively small, since, in 1925. there were
only 720 coloured pupils in Standard VI.
Of these 720 Standard VI pupils, the great bulk were concentrated in the larger urban
centres already provided with ordinary secondary facilities, and they would, therefore, not
require aid towards boarding or transport.
(33) The Commission further recommends that, where hostels for coloured pupils are or
have been established by private enterprise, the Administration should grant aid on lines
similar to those laid down in Sections 262 and 263 of Ordinance 5. 1921
INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS.
(34) The Commission is unable to recommend the establishment by the Administration
of ad hoc industrial schools for coloured children, as such institutions, under the Durban
agreement, no longer fall within the purview of the Province. but under the control of the
Union Education Department.
(35) The Commission is, however, strongly of opinion that suitable provision should
be made for instruction of coloured pupils in the subjects of manual training and housecraft,
feeling, as it does, that an education which is entirely bookish is not calculated to meet the
requirements of the majority of pupils, with an eye to their reparation for the tasks of life
and their duties in the community and home.
The Commission, therefore, recommends that, especially in the larger urban areas,
suitable centres should be established and equipped for instruction in these subjects in
accordance with appropriate syllabuses.
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.
(36) The Commission recommends: —
(i) That in all coloured schools, in addition to the opening exercises, not less than
thirty minutes should be devoted to religions instruction at some suitable neriod
during the day.
That in undenominational coloured schools under a board the use of the syllabus
and catechism, as provided in the Ordinance, should be strictly observed.
Chat it should be made the duty of every inspector of schools, when inspecting
coloured schools, other than those of non-Christian designation, to inquire and
report whether religious instruction is duly eiven in the time allotted