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Training School. Education in Bahrain is now divided into
three stages, the Infant Stage, the Intermediate Stage and
the Final Stage, each with three classes, It was originally
intended to have Final Stage classes in the Manama, Muharraq
and ilodd schools, but it is already evident that, for the time
being, there will be insufficient pupils to warrant the enter­
tainment of staff for Final Stage classes in three different
centres. Indeed it seems likely that in the next year or two
there will be no more than 40 to 60 boys in the whole of the

Government Schools in Bahrain fit for Final Stage tuition.
This is mainly due to the .inadequacies of the teaching staff
employed so far in the various schools, and it has long been
recognised that little improvement can be made until a proper
Training School for teachers is opened here in Bahrain. Un­
fortunately it has been found that there is no one among the

present senior teaching staff capable of training junior
school-masters, and indeed there is no one really capable of
teaching in a Final Stage school. Thus the immediate essential
is to introduce from outside' throe or four thoroughly well
qualified teachers who can not only take the Final Stage
school in Manama but can in addition run the teachers Training
School in the evenings. Mr. Vallance informs me that he hopes
to get in touch with three or possibly four men whom he knows
personally, who have the requisite qualifications and who arc

sound politically. They v/ill be expensive, for they will
require salaries of Rs 300/- per mensem or possibly more, but
I am in full agreement with him that until teachers of this
type have been recruited no real efficiency can be introduced
into the Final Stage tuition. This position is accepted by

the Bahrain Government who are prepared to find the funds
required and who, as the result of the concentration of Final
Stage tuition in Manama, are at least relieved for the time
being of providing for this stage at three different centres.
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