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boya will not uohiovo until after another three

yours.
M, A churtor on the linos of the oao pro­
posed by Dundas would not moot with the approval
of iuo .‘Shaikhs. Education in Bahrain io now
controlled by tho government, tho charter would
Vao control of the government over tho

principal oohoola and place it in the binds of a
council where tho Bahrain Govcraaeul would bo out-
raubored :ln every vote token on educational polioy
in Bahrain by eight voto3 to one. If the Buhrain

Government provided half tho funds i.t eould require
'« proportional representation on the council, ciuoh
a charter, lAcuellod on the one wiuch wuo refused
by Iraq, would be os unpopular in Bahrain as it
Via3 in Baghdad.
jlO. Dundee’ soheme has the appearance of
being a prooonoaivad one and bears .little or rio
relation to local conditions, .local rexpuirementc

r-^l local oonsiuorutiuns. lie os mo to Bahrain with
the eciiGiue more or lous ready wade, ho did not
lirot examine the educational position in Bahrain
mkI then work out a scheme to ou.it the local needs.

'I no ports of the report which are valuuole have
been taken by the uuthor from the govcrnj.v/nt13 own
views ana from written reports by tho Director of
Education v.ho first proposed a Gulf College in
June 1939, but this was to be cn institution whioh
would cater for boys aftor they had finished at

the kind of college whioh Dundaonow envisages and
would prevent them from going for higher training