44.

English teachers of mathematics who passed the advanced examination in Arabic, and wfere as an experiment entrusted iast year with a few lessons in that language, are no'v able to undertake the teaching of geometry in Arabic.

Great difficulty has been found in recruiting Egyptian teachers for the work, and it cannot be denied that several of the masters provisionally appointed do not come up to the standard required for the secondary schools. Kevertheless it is stated that the students have made more progress this year than last, and furtlier improvement may he looked for when better qualified Egyptians are available, and the English matlie-]iiatical masters wlio are ]iow studying Arabic become capable of giving instruction in the vernacular. The teaching of other subjects in the language of the country will he undertaken in due course.

The examination for the secondary education certificate in 1909 was held under new regulations. The most important change was the division of the examination into two parts; part I being an examination in the work of the first two years, and part II an examination in the curricLduni prescribed for the Third and Fourth Yeans on the literary and scientific sides re.spectively. In and after 1912 no candidate will be allowed to enter for part II unless he has passed part I at least two years previously.

The results of part I of the examination in 1909 were as follows :— Govo’nmont scliools .. Non-Government sciiooKs I’rivato .study Total ..

Number of Candidates.

70!) IG.’) 101 1)75 Number j Percentage successful, i successful.

4.19 .')2 9 G.3 31 9 51(1 52 Of the 510 sueces.sful candidates, 495 are continuing their studies in secondary schools (453 in Government schools and 42 in non-Government schools).

The following table gives the results in part II of the examination ;— Candidate..

Government schools Non-Government schools Private study ., Total ..

Lileiarv side.

o as O tc-d 1.58 171 504 <a /j y. cS 128 77 23 228 o O X 81 45 13 Scientific side. Total.

a « w o VI ’Jl p.< 45 137 41 41 219 85 12 4 S S P-i w G2 29 10 V c tn P T3 Ul in rt P-i . bc-i 295 212 21G 101 46 723 213 89 27 72 42 12 329 46 In 1908, 233 eandulates, or 52 per cent , were suece.s.sful, .so that la.st year .show.s a .smaller percentage (rom a much larger Held. The number of candidates from noii-(I oven m lent schools and private .study has iiicrea.scd in an (*veii greater proportion than the number from Government .schools.

Of the 329 succe.ssful candidate.s, 250 are now continuing their studies in higher colleges in Egypt or abroad. The number of those who have jii'oceeded to foreign .schools or lUliversiti(s has increased from 3 in 1907, and 33 in 1908, to 40 in 19()y.

45 candidate.s are employed in the Oivil Service, as compared with 38 in 1908, and () hiive found other occupations. The number oftho.se returned as “unemployed ” has increased from 10 in 1908 to 28 in 1909.

50. Female Education.

The most interesting development during the past year in connection with female education is the appointment of one of the former students of the Sanieh Training College (IS head-mistress of an important private .school at Eayonm containing 150 girls, and of another trained woman teacher as vice-principal of the Boulak Normal School for House of Commons Parliamentary Papers Online. Copyright (c) 2006 ProQuest Information and Learning Company. All rights reserved.