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a competitive examination uppoars the moat fair
und reasonable method of picking boys for udvunoed
education. Last year it is truo that u number of

boys «liu failed in the examination hud to leave
school because they had completed their course and
too old to be kept on. dome of the purents
rtUfcl
resented this and special classes were opened for
taoso boys //ho wished to continue their education,

only a few boys availed thooaolvos of the olueaoo.
i!ig /.oediug out of such a number of older boys was
not u normal procedure but was necessary on this
occasion owing to tho reorganisation of the system.

V. In seotion 3 of tho report it stated that
it would bo possible to maintain a higher standard
in the junior seotion of the proposed oollege than
in the three existing junior sohoolo. There seems
to ba no justification for this stutoment. It
v.ouid certuinly bo ohoaper to combine the three

proposed new schools in one building but at the some
time the existing eohoolo at lledd and i4uhurraq, and
probably Muxuunah, would still be required, The
government would have to provide schools for boys
who wore ineligible or unable to pay for the tuition
in the proposed oollege.

8. In seotion 4 Dundas mentions the difficulty
ol forecasting the response to the sohame. I think
oeforo embarking on so oootly a schema an attempt
should be made to ascertain what resppnse was likely
from othor Gulf States. I know that replies to
enquiries would not be reliable but at least it might
bo possible to discover how many parents in Kuwait