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institute must open branches to provide lessons for those who find the main
building inaccessible. This cannot be done until more staff are appointed. In
the National Bank 400 members of the staff have applied to the Council for
English lessons but it is impossible to do more than supervise teaching given by
Persians and provide text-books. A British professor was offered to and accepted
by the university in December but his arrival has subsequently been cancelled.
This is the sixth time during the past year that a professor has been proposed,
^"^xccepted and withdrawn.
49. In Isfahan the new institute was formally opened on the 22nd December.
About 250 students are being taught English and 200 have joined as members
for club activities only. Lectures, concerts and exhibitions of films are held
every week as in the Tehran Institute. English in place of German is now taught
in the technical college by the institute staff.
50. In Shiraz all necessary preparations have been made for an institute
to be opened. Work will start immediately staff can be found.
51. The institute directors are making regular inspections of secondary
schools in Tehran and Isfahan and giving advice on the teaching of English.
A new Minister of Education has recently been appointed who desires to promote
the British system of education and would gladly accept British teachers in all
secondary schools. Advantage of this attitude should be taken while it exists.
52. A lecture was delivered to a large audience of doctors by Dr. Florey,
professor of pathology at Oxford, on the new drug penicillin. Miss Irene Ward,
M.P., gave lectures and met many Persians in Tehran and Isfahan. Her tour
had an excellent effect and similar tours by British visitors would be welcomed.
A number of Persians of both sexes have asked to be sent to England for study
purposes and the matter is under consideration.
53. The proposed Russian Institute in Tehran, to which reference was made
in my despatch under reference, has not yet materialised.
54. I am sending copies of this despatch to the office of the Minister of State
Resident in the Middle East, to His Majesty's Ambassador in Moscow, to the
Government of India and to all consular officers in Persia.
I have, &c.
R. W. BULLARD.