(8) The language provisions of the Ordinance should not be applied in the Transkei. 
(9) The best bilinguists are probably those whose home language was not the language 
sed as a medium of instruction in school. 
(10) In the training schools, English is the medium generally, ard Afrikaans is taught 
as a language. Students receive practice in both media, and examinations in class teaching 
through Afrikaans are now held; the effect of this is not yet apparent. 
FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS. 
The Commission has carefully reviewed and considered these points of evidence, with 
due regard to the weight attaching to the representations made by the various witnesses and 
correspondents. and desires to submit the following findings and recommendations: — 
CONTROL AND ORGANISATION. 
After the most careful consideration of what admittedly is a thorny question, the 
Commission has decided te recommend: — 
(1)- That the Administration should take power to make any existing school board 
the co-ordinating body for coloured education within the whole or part of its statutory area, 
it being understood that existing church schools or church schools suhsequently established 
shall preserve their existing religious liberty. 
(2) That in an area where the school board is the co-ordinating authority for coloured 
sducation, the Administration should nominate on such a board members for the special 
purpose of representing the interests of the coloured population. 
The board would be the body which would advise the Department on the question of 
muildings and equipment and tbe establishment of additional schools for coloured pupils. 
It is not suggested that the board should be responsible for the erection and maintenance 
of all necessary new buildings. When the board had determined the definite need of an 
additional school, it would ascertain whether any religious body working in its locality would 
be willing and able to undertake the establishment of such a school, and it would then 
forward its recommendation to the Department. In the event of no church body coming 
forward, it would be competent for the board, with the approval of the Administration, to 
astablish a public undenominational school. 
(3) That, at the request of the recognized church authority, a school committee may be 
established for any church school. This committee should consist of : — 
(a) the manager (or his deputy), who should be chairman and correspondent; 
(b) two members nominated by the recognised church authority; 
(¢) two members elected by the parents. | 
(4) That, mutatis mutandis, the duties of the school committee shall be the same as 
the duties of the committee of a public undenominational school. 
Iraiving or TEacHERS. 
(5) The Commission is of opinion that no change in the existing system of denomina- 
tional control of the training institutions is called for, and accordingly recommends that the 
present system of control be continued. | 
(6) The Commission further supports the desire very generally expressed that religious 
nstruction should form a definite part of the work of these institutions. 
(7) The evidence available shows that the supply of teachers suitably qualified for work 
below Standard V is adequate, but that, owing, probably, to the low salaries paid in the 
past, the teaching profession has not always attracted the best type of person. For work in 
Standards V and VI, the supply has not kept pace with the demand, and a considerably 
increased supply of Primary Higher candidates is needed. Where it has not been possible 
fo procure teachers ‘of the Primary Lower type, the causes have been the difficulty of 
obtaining board and lodging at rates which teachers’ salaries made it possible to pay or the 
nninviting nature of the environment in which the teacher has been compelled to live. _ 
(8) The Commission recommends that transport expenses should be paid in the case 
1f teachers taking up a first appointment. 
(9) The Commission considers that the educational standard at present demanded for 
admission to the teachers’ courses is satisfactory; but it is of opinion that, with a view to 
guarding against unsuitable persons procuring teachers’ certificates, there should be a 
careful elimination of unpromising candidates not later than the end of the first vear of 
the course of training. 
" (10) The Commission recommends that no age limit for entrance to the teachers’ courses 
be fixed at present. 
[C.P. 1971