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'iho oyrian teachers were personally selected by

iresident Dodge of the iunerioun University of
iluyrout aud with tho exception of the late Syrian
.juparintondent of schools they have provod sucessful.
•fiie Palestinians wero recommended Dy the British
«aucution authorities of that country, Should an

unueairable teacher get into the education system
of Bahrain ho would very soon bo removed, I fail
to sue on whut grounds this sweeping statement was
wide by Dundus who visited the schools once, with
mu, during his stay in Bahrain, and appeared neither

to understand or to take interest in the masters or .
in the work whioh was in progress.
4. The Bahrain Government has always contem­
plated tho eventual substitution of foreign teaohera
by looul teuohers trained in the government schools.

This was one of the main reasons for the establiun-
most of the Kulliyah last Ootober. almost all the
local teachers, male and female, wore trained in
the government sohools but for some years to come
it will bo necessary to employ u oertain percentage

of oyriuns, Palestinians or Egyptians, as is being
done at present and as is reoomaended in Dundas*
report. The principle of increasing the British
touching staff in the Kulliyah and in the Teohnioul
•school, when possible, was accepted by the Bahrain
Government. At present the Director of Education

toachos himself in the Kulliyah.
5. I asked Yullanoe about his conversation
«ith Dundas and I understand that nothing resembling