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BOMBAY ADMINISTRATION REPORT.
Chap VII.
INSTRUCTION.
High Schools,
Presidency The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent. .
Central Division*
Northern Division.
Southern Division.
Sind.
[1888.89,
and the fee-receipts from Us. 38,136 to Rs. 39,574. The aided schools for Europeans •
sians numbered 40 with an average attendance of 2,830, against 39 with an averao^ 1 ^ llra '
ance of 2,761 in the previous year, and the fee-receipts rose from Rs. 87,771 to ]p
The number of aided English-teaching schools was 27 as in the previous year but th'
age attendance rose from 3,610 to 3,716, and the fee-receipts from Rs. 57*,668 ? to R
The number of aided Anglo-Vernacular schools rose from 90 to 91, the average daii *
ance from 8,639 to 8,784, and the fee-receipts from Rs. 1,27,492 to Rs. 1R4 221^
were 47 unaided schools with an average daily attendance of 3,799, against 31'such ’d 6
with an attendance of 2,152 in the previous year, and the fee-receiptsVose from tv o C ?a? s
to Rs. 58,388. 32,0/]
The attendance in the schools teaching up to the Matriculation examination is sh
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the following table :
n in
Boys’ Schools.
Central ( Bombay City.
Division. ) Mofussil
Northern Division ..
Southern Division ..
Sind
Total ..
Girls’ Schools.
Central Di- ( Bombay City.
vision. 1 Mofussil
Sind
Total ..
Grand Total ..
Maintained by
Government.
Maintained by
Native States.
Aided by Government
or by Local or.
Municipal Boards, or
by Native States 1 .
Unaided.
Total,
1887-88.
1888-89.
1887-88.
1888-89.
1887-88.
1888-89.
1887-88.
1888-89.
1887-88.
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11,720
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21,391
22,335
^ In the Central Division the Elphinstone School continues in a high state of*efficiency, and
in the reports of the Inspectors on the aided schools in Bombay special praise was given to St.
Mary’s Institution and St. Peter’s school at Mazgaon, the Scottish schools, the Eyculla schools,
the Cathedral schools, the Convent schools in Byculla and the Fort, St. Xavier’s and the
M&him schools. The Bombay High School was specially commended for good discipline.
The death of Mr. M. M. Kunte, who had for the last fifteen years presided over the Poona High
school, deprived the Department of the services of a valuable officer. The high schools for bop
and girls and all the aided schools in Poona were favourably reported on, and high praise was
given to the new English school. The Satara school obtained a good and the Sholapur school
a fair report. The Xasik school suffered from a bad head master, who was dismissed. At
Ahmednagar the Government school and the Mission school were affected by the competition
of schools under pmivate management, and at the close of the year under report the Govern
ment school was handed over to the Ahmednagar Education Society, in the hopeth&t local
influence would effect consolidation and improvement.
In Ahmeclabad the Government school continued to improve and the new English
school secured a large number of pupils. The Government and Mission schools at Surat
were favourably reported on. The inefficient private school started in the previous
year, was abolished. The Government school at Nacliad was well managed 3 but the stall
required strengthening. The condition of the schools in Kathiawar was good.
. The increase in the number of schools in the Southern Division was due to the pro
motion of the Free Church school at Alibag. The accommodation at the Mission school in
Belgaum was defective. At the Government school the attendance decreased. The Pbar-
war and Ratnfigiri schools and the Rajaram School at Kolhapur were very highly commend'
ed, and the report on the SAvantvadi school was satisfactory, but the staff of the las
appeared to be underpaid.
In Sind there was a falling off in the older schools, due to the development of middle
schools and to the opening of two new high schools at Hyderabad : an Upper Grade school, in
tended for the well-to-do classes, and the Union Academy, a select school for Hindus an
especially for the Amils. Both of these schools have started with fairly high fees, am Pj
fee-receipts in the Government and European schools have increased, while in the al e
schools for natives they have fallen. The Government schools were subjected to a. sea a; C !;.
ing examination by the head of the department and were found to have improved in e c
ency. The Sind Madrasa continued to make good progress, and the plans and sstima^
for the new building were placed before Government. The proprietary school at Shi al P
was reported to be a useful auxiliary of the Government school, and the grammar sc oo ^
Karachi, the Manora school, St. Patrick’s school and the Convent school were all rep 01 e
be m a flourishing condition.
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