399 {h.) TjJAOirKKS in actual iService who receive Partial Training.

Training Institution.

lVachc*r.s successful on completion of course.

Number of teachens ix‘ceiving partial training.

I'JOS. 1S09. lUUS. 1900.

Klutlivial Training Centre for men teachers in primary schools Bi-weekly normal classes in Cairo and the provinces j for men teachei-s in Kuttabs ..

Total C32 G55 54. Educatio From the year 1&07 onwards the Eg}’ptian Educational Mission in Europe, which hud been in existence for a considerable period, has been largel}’ extended, and 20 students are being sent annually to Europe for a three years’ course in various branche-s of stud} The intention is to provide a supply of efficient Egyptian teachers for the schools more quickly than is at present possible with the means available within the countr3 Oi the 41 students in training in 1908-9, 7 have come back to Egypt; 19 more proceeded to England in the summer of 1909, one of whom was subsequently compelled bv ill-health to return, so that there are now 52 students in all. Besides these 52 students in England, there are 3 preparing for the Doctorat en Droit” at French universities. Five women students are also being trained for the girls’ schools ; three are at Stockwell Training College, London, and two at Homerton Training College, Cambridge.

With regard to the results of what must still be considered an experiment, the success of the students at examinations during the past }*ear has not been especially remarkable; the most satisfactory work was accomplished by the two engineering students, and by the medical students who took up research work after taking their degree.

In addition to the students maintained abroad by the Government, there are 10 young Egyptians in England and 17 in France whose education is supervised by the j\Iinistry. Further, an increasingly large number go independently to Eurojie to complete their education, and there must be approximately 100 in England and 300 in France, Belgium and Switzerland.

55. S The school for Kadis is now in the third year of its existence and continues to justify the expectations of its founders as to its utility. The students have avoided the distractions of political agitation, and are devoting themselves with diligence to their work, which comprises instruction in religion, law, literature, mathematics, and physical science. The majority of the statf of instructors, i.e., 24 out of 31, are taken from Ulema and students of El-Azhar who subsequently completed their studies at the Nasrieh Training College.

Last September there were 321 applications for admission, out of which 110 were chosen, bringing the total number of students up to 334. Of the new candidates, 107 were admitted to the lower section and 3 only to the higher section. As none of the students will complete the full five years’ course of the lower section until June 1911, a further year must elapse Ijefore the higher section can be adequately filled.

56. E The courses of lectures given in this institution have been increased from 5 to 8, and the following table indicates the subject-matter of the lectures, the language ill which each is delivered and the mimher of students in attendance:— [381] E 3 House of Commons Parliamentary Papers Online. Copyright (c) 2006 ProQuest Information and Learning Company. All rights reserved.