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Education.

1. Schools. The following Government Schools wore open (luring the
school year, which lasts approximately from October until June.
Manama: No. of students No. of teachers

Boys Sohool ... 403 11
Technical Sohool .18 3
Girls Sohool ... 146 5
Religious School 20 1
Muharraq :
Boys School ... 342 8
Girls School ... 116 7
Hedd Boys School 199 4
Country Schools:
Rafaa 70 2
Suk al Khamis 90 2
Budeya GO 2
Sitra 65 2
Education in the country schools is confined to reading, writing, arithmetic
and Koran, in Manama and Muharraq the curriculum is more advanced and includes
English.
The majority of the teachers are Bahrain subjects but in Manama and
Muharraq, and in the Technical School, the senior teachers are Syrian.
2 Technical School. Satisfactory progress has been made by the students
of the Technical school. The first batch of boys who entered the carpentry classes
completed their two years training and all obtained work, most of them being taken
on by the Public Works and Electric Departments who employ a number ol
carpenters. These boys are now skilled carpenters and can be definitely certain of
permanent employment in future.
A new batoh of boys have entered the oarpontry class. The engineering
students who started working later, have not completed the course which is to
include six months practical work with the Bahrain Petroleum Company.
The Technical School is at present the most satisfactory branch of Govern­
ment Education but its success is only made possible by paying the students to
complete their course. If the boys did not receive an allowance of Its. 15 per
month, of which Its. 10 is paid monthly and the remainder on completing the two
years, their parents would not allow them to remain at school.
3. Religious School. A new school was opened during the year for students
of religion and religious law. The sohool is under tho oontrol of Shaikh Abdul
Hussein al Helli, the Shift Appeal Kadi. The students are young men mostly
belonging to the Shia families who in the past have supplied the Kadis of Bahrain.
The Shia public in the past have frequently represented the need for such an
institution. Most of the students live in the country and they too, as in the
Technical school, are being given an allowance to cover the cost of coming in to
Manama to attend school.
. 4. Students Abroad. Two more girls have been sent to the British Syrian
Training School at Beyrout. There are now three Bahrain girls learning to bo
school teachers.
Two sons of Shaikh Mohamed bin Isa are being educated at the expense of
the Bahrain Government at the Beyrout University and one young Shia, son of tho
late Shia Kadi, Sayed Adnan, is at the Islamieh College Lucknow.

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