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The progress of state education, 1939-1941 591

Tho Education Office,

BAHRAIN.

9 May 1940.
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To : C. Dalrymple Bolgravo, Eoq., C.B.E.
Adviser to the Bahrain Government

Sir,

I have the honour to submit, as requested, a short roport on
progress in Education since I became responsible for tho Department at
Iho end of November last year, Tho pa&e-numbors in brackots are refer-

moos to my Report on Govornmont Education in Bahrain, dated September
lGt, 1939.

The first atop tnkon was to rationalise the working hours of both
•asters nnd boys, in all tho schools (P.39), The teaching hours of
assistant masters wore reduced from 36 per week to 28, and those of head-

Asters to 18. Boys of the Intermediate and Pinal Stages now do 28
Periods in the classroom each week, and those in the Infants* Stage do 24,

Sanction was then obtained from tho Government to regularise the
PV and conditions of teachers at the three large schools of Uonamsh,

•toharraq, and Hidd (PP.40 & 41). arados of toachers wore defined ; por-
•anont rates of pay for each grade wore fixed ; annual inorements^up to
c°rtain maxima, woro established ; and participation in the Oovernmont
Providont Fund scheme was made compulsory. The minimum commencing salary
•f . . . . + nf those threo ochools is now 50 rupees per
n an assistant mastor at one or tnose *■«««
^hth, and the minimum annual increment, Por month, is 5*