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MINISTRY OF .i EDUCATION AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT A.NNU.AL REPOm' .. , .. ON , _EOOCATION DMSION 1960 -1961 ED 1/34/79 � 1 I ..

LEGISLATION ° by the Legislature of the Ea.ucation (Amendment) The enactment No.

3 of 1961 substituted "colonial Ordinance for the expressions "government expression "the revenues expression revenues" Ordinance Chapter wherever the expres�ion "government school" school .house", the school" grant" for the and "colonial expression .

"colonial of the Colony".

for the.


expression grant", the "colonial appeared in the Principal expression the earlier 91 of the Laws of British Guiane •• Ordinance No, 3 of 1961 also provided for: (a)Certain aided schools to be deemed government schools (see schedule below).

(b)The ace ountabili ty of Governing Bodies or Managers of schools records over:of for grants and handing to at {a).
referred (c) The right of access of any person to any aided school that is deemed to be a government school .or.upon any for any lawful purpose laud on which it is situated, of the school.
in connection ,nth the activities The Bill was passed by the Legislative Council on the twelfth day of January nineteen Administering hunQred the Government was given on the 19th May, 1961. and sixty-one and the assent of the officer The Schedule to the Bill is as foll�: SCHEDULE Name of School Providence Goed Fortuin Anglican Anglican Anglican, .$t Matthew's Supply Anglican Grove Anglican St Y,aiy's Anglican, I :St Sicon s .Anglican La Bonne ·Intention St Augustine's Non Pariel Anglican St Mark St Alban' s A St Gabriel's Bath Settlemen No.
59 Anglican Leeds Anglican Dartmouth Ang lican 1 s Anglican, ng lican }.nglican t Anglican ·Jack1-ow Paradise Anglican (St Barnabas) Hackney Endeavour Anglican 1 s .Anglican, St Mary Methodist Kingston , Methodist Plais�nce Strath Campbell Met�odist Liberty Methodist Christianburg .C::ornelia V..ahaica Church of Scotland Church of Scotland Belmont St Col�ba Church of Scotland Ida Church of Scotland 1 s Church of Sco�iand ·\.... /Manchester ••••• • t .. 2 - Church of Scotland Catholic Church of Scotland Roman Catp.ol-ic Mission Mission ry Canadian Manchester G,ood Hope Church of Scotland H�is t'Diere� Malgretout St Francis Ro.man Santa Rosa Roman Catholic Ramjit Canadian Hague Canadian Mission MacGiEiva John Gibson Cane.dian Mission De Hoop Canadian Mission Biaboo_ Canadian Mission Novar Canadian Bohemia No.56 Canao.ian Gibson Fisher C�Mdian Mission Ridge Canadian Bethel Congregational I�hac� Congregat ional No.
5 Congregational Lrthurv�lle School St James 1Ia.ryville Camdian Mission Can�dian Mission Mis;:don Anglican, Waramuri.

Mission Mission 1 ADMINISTRATION of Education and Mr A.H. Moore, of Education of Education 1.r.

E. Case, Deputy Director were i� 1961 promoted and Deputy Director lvir F. ' Assistwt Director Director forrrer as from tray, 1960 and the latter as from October, Mr R.M.

Nicholson, Public Service in order to take· up tin ap�ointment secondary Assist�nt promotion.

school in Jamaica.
school in Jamaica.

Director as Headmaster of a Mr G.O.

Fox was p.o�oted to the post of of Education filling the vacancy created of Education, resien_ed from the to.the posts of Assistant Director by Mr Moore's of Education, respectively, 1960.

In August, the Du.ring the year also, the Director 1954, performed the duties of Permanent SecrGtary relieved of Secretary.
these duties consequent upon the appointment of a Permanent of Education, who, since to the Ministry, vras School Building: In the school year 1960-61 four nev� Government schools were Park, East Bank Essequibo; School, buildings Corentyne, settlement.

Anglican School, at St Patrick's were «>nstructed Two new Government-ovmed to provide Canje, Berbice, erected at Lodge, East Coast Demerara; Greemrich Endeavour and the Commons, West Bank Demerarv.,; and Fort Ordnance, Canje, Berbice.
additional accornmoda,tion Berbice.
On the Corentyne and Fyrish Congregational River, some 60 miles up, a new Governmen� School was in course of erection at Orealla, an Amerindian process of construction Erven, Nevr Amsterdam, Berbice; and East Ruimveldt had to be deferred East Coast Demerara, Johanna.Cecilia, Es$equibo, Corentyne, lower flats of the following Golden Fleece Government, Essequibo Government, of St John-th-e-Ba Coast; Bath Government and Leeds building ·which forms part even though these scho.ols were listed· for ronstruction.
The Other school buildings during the year �t the following Dlaces: Berbice, and the Gove:rnrnent-owned ·For one reason or ahother, work four school buildin;;s were enclosed - of Eden, East �ank Demerara, ptist-ADglican School, , East Bank Demerara.

and No.

68 Villaee, Lesbeholden, Enterprise, at Gard.en Bartica.

were in Vryman's Black Bush Polder, Corentyne; /The ••.•• ' 1 • ,, () ? "
- 3 - ·The total accoilJBodation IJrovided by the conpleted buildings is 31608 pl�ces but, as the school at Greenwich old Anglican School at Good Hope, the actual number of additional places is· 3�521.

A very ext·ensive under which sixteen to providing enlarged of most of 'these schools had school year.

for const,r four schools places.

Contracts :110.,s planned early in 1961, 1ction ,'lith a view, 12,700 places.

In addition, 661 .additional before the end.of the nere approved been approv�d program.
'!le to provide schools were to be -for the building Park displaced:the During the period under review-, twelve Horne Economics.

Woodwork Departments were under construction p'iaces: and at the following in the County of Berbice - Tain, Fort Ordnance a,id Rosignol; in the County o-f Demerara Cane Grove, Ellr.lore, Georgetovm, Beterverwagting, and Diamond; and Carnpbellv:ille in the County of Essequibo Vergenoegen, .

· Arthurville Anna Regina and Most of these were completed within the year.
for which provision was made in the Development All new school buildings were aderjuately with furniture su�plied Estirne,tes.

II.

Primary Education: At the end-.of the school year, August 31, 1961, the total enrolment the ages of 5 and -16 in 327 of the 337 Government 2,nd (see Table I -Appendix in the colony was 129,373 A of children between aided primary schools and Table III A - Appendix D).

enrolment was 4,025.

The averaee 108,803.93, which is 84.1% of the number on roll.
The increase over the previous year's daily attendance during the year was There were 3,181 full-time teachers in these (337) ·schools (approximately one teacher the number of teachers Apyendix 11).

11B to every 40 children).

About one fourth of ates(see'Table II - Teachers' Certific held trained During the year eight primary schools became aided and four,-4ew Government Schools were opened.
free education the ages of 5 and 16 years, the compulsory age-range The primary school provides for children being 6 to 14 years.

between completed to the Ministry.

A Col!llllittee charged its work towards the end of June and submitted its concilsions with the production of a curriculllI!l,guide · The document is-being e�anined.

III.

Secondary Education: One school, the 1st September, This brought· ·i;o Secondary School Regu.
Iati6ns, 1957. the Berbice Institute, Educational 1960 added to the list of grant-aided was, as from Secondary Schools.

fourteen the number of schools receiving aid• tinder the There are eight grant-aided secondary schools at which science is leing taught.

,.

/The ••••• - 4 - • l The two Government-o-.


:ned secondary and Bishops' High School, had.an enrolment of the aided seconde..ry schools had an estir_'!afad 3,500 pupils (see Table I -Appendix "A" and TS;ble III B -Appendix schools.was 5,586, while the other secondary schools, 11E 11).
of 1,158 pupils; the enrol...,�ent I s College Queen .. Building plans for a Government secondary school at Anna Regina., Esseq_uibo, temporary building in :May, 1961. were being pursued actively , but the school was started in a IV The Technical Institute: For the year under review, one of the most significant events of the first full-time course for the training of was the introduction Land Surveyors.
Valuable assistance was received from the United States Inter­ national Co-oper::,tion Administration to assist in the development of this course.

which provided an Adviser, Mr ·.r.E.

Car:rp, 1 The Extra-mural evening prelir.ri.nary Mackenzie, Port Hourant, and Uitvlugt continued classes at Ne,, .Amsterdam, ily.
to function satisfactor The first 2-year schere for the traininc of students of Prin,,ry Craft Course was completed in December, 1960 for the :Preliminary Schools and a total of 42 boys fro� the followinc Craft Course examination:- schools sat the Prelimina,ry Alm ss, Corentyne St Mark's Anglican, st Francis Xavier, Port Mourant, St Joseph's .h.ng lican, Port Mourant, New .Amsterdam.Handicraft Blairmont Lutheran, iWackenzie Undenor.iinz.tional, Blairnont, Centre, New Amsterdam -,.
!est Bank, Berbice Corentyne Mackenzie, Deraerara River.

Corentyne It is hoped shortly to establish a similar course on the Essequibo at all courses totalled 1,033.

(see Table I -.Appendex Cea.st.

The Enrolment "A" and Table IV -Appendix 11 F 11).

The number.of students and Guilds courses continued examnations -hel.d in May/Ju.ne.

:.i year.

reaching to increase, in,.d96!

.. 1ffcre .


the st�ndard of entry to City and the awards seven r:.10ro: gained at the than in ,the _;:::recedin:g For the first time in May, 1961, candidates the 3rd and final year of the Ordinary Certificaie Electrical scope and standard Kingdom.

Four candidates These are the first in the Tirest Indies and among the first in the Common­ wealth to have taken these examinations.

Engineering and Building.


These exar3inations Certificate to the Ordinary National ffi-t the examinations, in Mechanical and are equivalent in the United in were presented for and three were successful.

The Deputy Principal, , and Mr. G. Sandford, Lecturer, .i'vietahrorkin Mr. P.C.A.

Pooran, .

to act as g Trades, continued to continued Principal act a Deputy Principal.

and assuoed was appointed Mr. D.A.

Thann v1as appointed , duty on 21st April, 1961, and a mon"i-h later Ivlr.

O.H.
O.H.

St Hill Lecturer, Electrical Engineering Lecturer, Mechanical En[!ineering ( vice Mr �\iesterbaa.n).

/The ••• ,.

• 5 - I The _M,inist:ry welco�ed clurinG the year 3 .Advisers from the LC.L.

Professor in the development fro□ Purdue University, Mr. 7.E.

Camp� an Assistant valuable assistance Mr C.W.


Carlock, Trade Industrial on 20th February, 1961, on a 2-year assignrJent to develop training of Handicraft Teaching, put forward plans for the.establishment of Commercial Classe� emd Courses in Business Education.
Teachers; and Dr. L.A. Douglas, Direc:tor ·o:f Student of the course in Land Surveying; on a similar ass'ignment has Rica, who arri�ed-here a course for the �f New Mexico, who, Adviser ICA/Costa State University vtl10 has giv�n The Board of Governors met regularly on the first ilfedn�sday of each month.

There were several ch_anges a.oong its members during the course of the past year.
The first Cornraonwealth Technical Trcdning i'leek was celebrated frora Sunday, 28th May to Saturday, Institute was open to visitors who were free to ins:pect students' 3rd June.

During this week, the work.

The first Speeoh Night and Prize-giving was held on Thursday 1st June, vrhen His Excellency, the Officer Adninistering the Government,.

prizes and awards to 29 students •.

The Mr. D.F.

He¢1.ges, C.M.G.


nresented e.wards vrere based r:>.ainly .. upon the �esul ts of City and Guilds of· L�ndon · Institute exal!linations.

tion, the Hon.

B.S.

Rai, addressed the audience which included the Board of the award winners.

The Minister of Community Devel opnent and Educe,:.. □embers of the Industrial CODJ:!Uility; and parents of .. Governors, v. The CarneRie School of Home Econonics The year under revie,v began with the a:ppoini:cent of the Principal.
entered a course in Child_ Develop­ In September,Miss L • .Angoy, an instructress ment and Nursery school work at the University course ,,rhich and also the University included visits and observations of Puerto Rico, was sponsored by the I.C • .A.

of 1'!est Virginia.

This · in.

:Penn.

State, Cornell,.

etc: • The enrolment was approximately 200 which is the limi.t of a year ( see Table I -Ap!

)endix "A 11).

Al though adru.ssions acco!


'.llllodation are 75, several girls leave for one reason or another: for employne¥t, for emigration, or to be uJa,rried.

Extra-curricula to be very popular.

continue·· activities ·For the first time since the begi;.

:ning of the Students' Co-operative are.

140 members who save regularly vised by Miss E. �ootoo.

·seven Thrift Society in 1955, savings have exceeded $1 ,000� Ther.e · every ,·reek.

The Society vras supe·r­ comprise the Management Colll!rit�e�.
students The Carnegie Home Maker's 4-H Club has become· a reality.

It has a rnel!lbership of 90 and neetings are held organised R.nd a member of the Rural meetings.

On October 5, girls attended Achieve1:1ent weekly.

The club is we:J_l ..

Youth staff attends most monthly_:::.:::l:'.:'.':·.

Day held at Mon P..epos.

Tiie stock of books numbers over 300 of which the favourite series are .Abbey Girls,.
Katy, Polyanna,· 0:nd William • .At the beginning of the school· yec;,r the Ge.mes Club was put on::,·· a better footing vi:i th· t he introduction of organised system is now working well and a Games Captain and House Cap tains for respective Houses have been elected.

games.

The .. House Although there has not been a one-ye'.

'-.r fer the training of teac�ers of Home Economics, organised have attended the school for periods varying fron four months to one year • course specially 20 teachers .
:.J /Most .••.. : •• \ 0 0 .. • • - 6 - It most of then were from re□ote areas to �\rhich they have returned.

A great deal was learnt fro□ these teachers during History 2.nd Culture ··:reek when they took turns to tell of their o,m particular district.

about their districts, especially • Technical Cora:ionwealth at Carnegie School of Hor:e Econoni'cs frori 29th May -2nd June was in<red very successful.
During this period it is estimated that over 2,000 people viewed the exhibition among the□ being pupils of upper classes in �rirna.ry and Secondary which was celebrated Schools.

;·.re�k Training The theme of the exhibition was "Technice,l Training for Young People", and several aeencies were invited to set up exhibits.

Special Classes: Three members of the Sugar Producers Officers and four cooks fron Bookers Shipping .Ass<Iiation, have teken short courses.
four Prison Forty-eieht trainees attended duriey the Easter Vac2,tion, 30 of whora were finally selected service in Ce.nada.

One of these was Carnegie.

an intensive as a Kitchen e□ployed for domestic Assistant at 3-week course VI.

f.he Governr.ient Treining College.


were selected but Yrere selected for training, by virtue Level in the General Certi­ In September, 1960, 150 students trainees ( see Table obtained at Advanced ExP..r.iiii.ation only 2 of whom wore not inservice of higher qualifications ficate of Filucation "did not cor:iplete the □ent.

On the other hand, one feoale student the Final Examination the Final Examination in 1961.
One hundred graduated with Grade I, Class I Certificates, Class II Certificates, (see Table II B -.Appendix ,-,,t the end o:f her 1959/60 course as he left to take up 11 Civil Service ,mo had been unable to take course through and twenty-nine obtained students Grade I I -.Ap-endix eighteen "C").

and three earned Grade II Class III Certificates wrote illness apryoint­ "A").
One student staffing: The Principe.l ,vent in Au0,1st, 1960 on vacation leave durine Training ,vhich he spent 6 weeks visiting 1.4r J.R. Butchey, Master, acted as Principal.

:\T.

Mc Donald left in February 1961, to take up other appoint.cents, their places were who had been the part-time trrenty ye.

?.rs also tendered her resigne,tion.

Messrs J.P. Somwaru e,nd and Music and Speech Traininrr Tutor for the past filled by Messrs S. Soall 2.nd A. :Moore.

Miss L. Dolphin in the United ICingdom.


Colleees Libra;v:: Eighteen more individual School Libraries the total over these has becooe incro�sin3ly added during the year, bringing four.

The nine Branch Libraries supervision tation of staff.

Gifts of books for the Collece fro� Oxford University Press and fron the British sets of Oxford Junior Encyclopaedia donated complete Encyclopaedia.

still continued (professional) were of such School Libraries to fifty­ to function.
Proper owing to lici­ difficult Library were received Council.

The latter and Everyman's VII, �roadcasts to Schools During the school year under review, the eighth year since the of Broadcasts to Schools, inauguration on the average vrore lmown to be receiving fro□ Monday to Friday for the ten-week period 02.ch torn.
175 Prioary and Seconde,ry the proe;rar.ines broadcast Schools daily - ,, , /The i • • • • • 0 0 ... - 7 - in Septe0ber The broadcast 1960 were:- series introduced at the beginning of the school year (a) l�TUR� STUDY: (Lower Division) in a si.r:Iple -way the habits of anioals, insects, to the •• ,.

This series explained a.nd children plants fai�iliar to this ,art of the world.

(b) LEI'' S SING TOG.

:,'l'HER(Lower good songs were chosen for these broe,dce.sts.
songs were included encourage to join in the singine.

in the "]!,earning the children by Radio" booklets D;i. vision) ••• .A ml!

'Ilber of simple but The words of the to (c) WOR�Il\G FOR A LIVUlth (Middle intended to indicate some of the employnent opportunities v1ork.
Division) •••• This series was to pupils in their last year at school in various fields• of (d)The Series CUR NEIGHBOURS (Middle Division) F.aster Term 1961, in the fora of BIG NEIGHBOURS and in August Term, 1961 by "CUR COEt.MOtf.7EALTH This series dealt with certain of various Geography asDects of -the �·rorld.

".

of the History and countries was continued in TC THE NORTH !lEIGHBOURS (e) THIS IS MY CCUNI'RY (Upper Division) geographical to provide the children -crnunt:ry.
and historical aspects dealt with various Guiana in a way of British ;ri th a r,reater knowledge of their (f) AFFAIR.s: (Upper Division) •••• This series kept tbe CUP��El.\1T children place at home and abroad, take an interest up-to-date in a number of iraporta.nt and also encoura.ged events taking the children to in what w<:.s happening about them.
(g) (h) Division) •• , •.• in rural and urban areas, and to give ettempted a ;?ride in speech for its own ssk.e, and· dealt with R01UJJCE OF ENGLISH (Middle children words cften r.rispronounced how to discover eX3>lained our Guianese stressing soms TC-SHAH,,'!

:: (Middle good songs were chosen for these broadcasts.

the songs were included to encourage to join in the singing.

traditions.
traditions.

the children the beauties Division) The words of in the "Les;rning by Radio" booklets •.• A number of ·s-imple but of the English languaee, (i) LIS'I'ENIID IS FUN (LowGr Division) •••• this series· encouraeing aimed at ap_,.,reciation of what is good in Music and Poetry .

(j) STORIES -RHYMES (Lower Division) Colonial School Unit.

.•••• produced by the BBC During the .August Term, 1960, two Seminars and the other at Port Mourant.
'trere held in Berbic e, one Teachers in the Berbice at New Amsterdam area attended and benefits arising these Seminars.

fron broadcasts Ideas were exchanged, to schools were discussed.

and various problems During the Christmas Term, 1961, Term, 1960, the Easter Term, 1961 and tho Sumr:ier schools.

broadcasts and adve..nce This 12-page, cycle-st infonw,,,tion for Te,,chors on the next terra' s broadca!::ts.
yled booklet includes summaries of copies of "The Young Listener" were distributed to Teacher· traininc courses were he�d•regularly mas and Easter Terms.
J.. series of lecture-discus Government Training Broadcasts College was continued, to Schools, the �rih�:ry function stressing of stirmlating at the the philosophy the child's of during the AuGUst, Christ­ sion-demonstrations • /imagination, 8 • ' ·the partnership imagination, bet'.rnen in the classroom9 and the availability Information Unit and, the tea.che� the Broadcasting Governoent through t_?

tile te:-chine staff.


Servic�s, no� normally_ accessible of resources Visits were paid by members of the �roadcasts to Schools Unit to schools in various Demerare., Essequibo how the children participation-.

and Ber-bice.

,rerc receiving narts of the country.

These included schools in The purpose of these visits vras to see the broadcasts, and how to enhance teacher The Advisory Corncri.ttee on Broadcasts to Schools met in Ya.y, 1961, to plan _the 1?rogramme and schedules for the ne�'f school year.
VI II.

SCHOOL FEEDTI� DIVISION The activities of the School Feedin8 Scheme -:rnre conducted received fro□ mainly on the basis of free supplies liver oil capsules ·fro□ Se,;>ter.iber, in Geor3etown, provision for only a very small percentage population and �·ia.s lir.

:ri.ted to the urban e,nd suburban Kitty and New Amsterdam inaugurated 1954, and r eplaced the old cooked r.1eal service of skin:ned milk 7?ow-der and fish of the Colony's school at Cenims in 1926, which ma.de UNICEF.
The Scheme was introduced e.reas.

Tiie snack· neal consisted of 2Q gr2,r.oes to ½·pt of liquid milk and 2 food y�2.st biscuits erery school day; in addition, alternate school days.

one fish liver oil capsule was given on of !

'.

'litk powder diluted to each beneficiary Fro□ 19•:4-, several cxi__:,erts revea.1-ed nutri�ioml , health, end clinical surveys · that there '.
'ras need .for supple­ daily requirermnts and Ni�cin) and Vitamin in the diet of nroteins for B -colclplex vitamins also A. Dietary studies value of high biological conducted by medical □ent to nake up the average (especially Riboflavin disclosed a deficiency and calcium.

..
..

In 1956, two years after the introduction the of the Scheme, at�ained □edical view was that the results clinical response to the shack □ent in the nutritional to the removal to B -complex had shown greater interest in their work, and nany schools by an increase in their average or reduction and Vitamin A. deficiencies.

meal as evidenced health of the beneficiaries especiall attendance.
had shoVIIl e, fairly good of tho classical clinical by a reaarkable y in-regard signs attributable The oajority of beneficiaries also benefited improve­ of r.rilk powder our alloca.tion was As a result of a ,rnrld shorta.

;e 01 !e 11er0 granted .

cut by about· 75% by UNICEF.

· powder for 19611 and there were approxir.

:iately 'fiiis aI!lount was received ever, to provide us any longer with fish oil capsules.
reduction in our quota was due to the fact tru:.t UNICEF conside:,;ed that greater emphasis in supplementary inf9,nt and pre-school only 94,600 lbs of mlk per day.

4,750 recipients by June� UNICEF was unable, how­ should be 9laced on the naternal, of the population.
This tremendous and consuced sections feeding ·.At the end of the period under review the snack meal was dis­ tributed in 334 schools throuchout According to the Month_ly Returns received due allowances for those outstanding, fed per school day during the three terms Wf,S - the length and breadth of the Colony.

fron Head Teachers, ma.king the averace nunber of recipients 1'filE.

Christoas, 1960 Spring, Summer, 1961 1961 No.

of days Averege fed per day 60 59 68 23,000 23,200 23,100 - /Of •••••.
J .. - 9 - r Of the 334 schools, 121 m:!re located in the Interior and districts of the forr.ier and the other.s, 213, wore sited on or near All the Creek to Charity.

were fed, and tha number of was approxirnat".

:ly 9,200, On the other hand in the 213 remote riverain the Atlantic coastcl children recipients other.�hools Medical Officer approximately 25,300.oal,{ing a total of 14,500 throughout belt fro□ Crabvrood croup of schools only about 21% of the children were.entitled as selected the Colony.
by the School to be fed, and the nu□ber selected was It was estimated that approxioately 4-,-745 ,000 snack meals w·ere distributed sisted of only two parts of the snack owing to the shortage capsules and milk powder durine; the n-reater during the year, but about 47% con­ .in the schools portion of the period.
of both The approxioate cost of the administration the cost of the food yeast biscuits and supervision w'as $78,112:­ of includiDG the scheme, a.s 1'.>llows - (a)Biscuits (b)Salaries ( c)Transpo:rlB,ti (d)Miscellaneous and �ages on i19,003 17,829 6,035 �35,245 42,867 $78,112 A certain g_uantity Plant for free of pasteurized distribution nilk was available fron the to the snack meal 62,100 half-pint bottles were distributed Milk Pasteurization recipients in the city schools.
durin2 the 1961 Spring Tern only.

IX School Medical Service This service continued its usual activities.

Visits were paid to schools in Inter:kr e,ree..s, The work included:- (1)Scree�ing of pupils by school nurses to determine those r:iedical a:� tent ion, In city schods, 6,949 requiring pupils and in rural schools, ·.a urses.
by the 8,244 were observed (2)Exa.mi�tion by the Schools Medical of 749 Officer pupils in the city and 3,549 frora the rural areas, who had been referred to her by the school nurses.

(3)Treatment of .pupils fro� □inor ailments, e.g.

sufferinP, mild nutritional disorders, skin diseases helninthiasis, and pediculosis.

(4)Referral of pupils suffering fro□ defects of eye, ee.r, nose and throe.t, diseases to Specialist or o_ther Medical syr.iptons of filariasis and other Officers.
(5) Health educ�tion of children and their �arents.

(6) S�ecial surveys -nurses conducted as nart of the Leprosy Control Programme aoong 44, 409 school children to the S:riecialist.

suffering Aoong them 13 '!Tere found to be for evidence fron Leprosy.

of leprosy surveys and 409 were referred x.

1.

SCHOOL Dfil.J"TAL SERVICES Georgetown and New .b.osterdan: full-time 'York was done by two part-time Dental Officer at the Georcetown Dental Officers.
In addition, e. Hospital undertook work.for /the ... - 10 - the public .

In New-A□sterde.n Hospital.

The rnmicipali ties did not have any services:.

the part-tine Officer had an office in the • \.

2.

Rural Areas: A (a) East Coast, Denerara, '':est Coe.st Berbice, a� East Berbice The two mobile u nits continued school children as -vrell as oothcrs and poor persons.
their work e.mowz -�ool �hildren and pre­ (b) East Bank Demerar?.., ••Test Coast Demerara, and F.ast Ben..� Essequibo - A Dental Officer using portable equipment c onhnued his work among children and others.

(c) Essequibo Coast and Islands,' r.nd Interior Areas - An officer "Tith portable equipment paid visits to the v arious areas.

J. areas.

Approximately 35,000 school children were examined in the various XI.

B.C.G.
B.C.G.

Vaccination During the year 171 schools wer� v isited and 27,448 children and in theRge group O -6 ye�rs 28.7% were found tested (Ma.ntoux Test) positive; age group 7 -14 years, 64.2%; end acre group 15 plus, 74.4%.

·r he number of.

children vaccinated was 11,342.

XII.

Scholarship Courses a.nd Loans In the year under review three Guiana Schole,rships were a�·rarded "' on the results of the University of London General Certificate at Advanced Level.
Mr Gilbert Ce.rnpbell proposed to l)Ursue a c ourse in civil engineerin� pursue a c ourse leadinc to a General or Special Decree in Drama or French, and Mr. James Croal who had also won an open schol�rship to the U.C.W.I.

was reading for loadinc to a deareo.

W.tiss Carol Chan Choone decided to the B.Sc.

'(Special) in Mathem:,,tics.

of Education ,, This was the second year in which three scholarships tenable at wore a•·•e,rded to te2..chers in aided seconds.ry schools.

Av,ards the U.C.W.I.


were mde to Mr I. McDoom to read for tho B.Sc.

U'hysics) de13ree, to �lr G. Glasgow· to pursue a course in 1'..a.thomatics to gain the Diploma in Education.

(B.Sc.)

,and to Mr. R.G:rant .

Again the Government awarded 5 one-year scholarships to prii...'""lary school teachers to pursue courses at Trainins Colleaes and De�artments Education Mr Girdhari (both Rural Educa.tion), Ur J. Uonize (Handicr",ft), (Physiqal Educetion), and Mrs P. Bobb-SeP.1ple in the Uni ted Kinedom.
Tho awards w-ere r::ede to Mr L.R.D.

Ains'l'rort who unfortune.tely was not "?12 .. cad.

of h, Miss S.Sarc;ecnt The scheme for r.iakinr, loans av::-,ilable to students continued to assist students pursuing courses in higher educ&tion abroad.

There W'as a great increase in the number of students tf'Jdng �,dvantago of this o:i:,,ortunity e,nd loans a□ountinc to $125,000 uere r;re.nted.

XI II.
XI II.

3xaoinations: The results of the exer.ri.nations held in British GuiaDB, d uring the yee..r ,v-ero as follows:- /Loc_al •••••• • - 11 - J Local Exaoinations: Exacrinat ion No.

passed Teachers' Certificate Pupil Teachers' Annual Pupil Teachers Prime.,ry School Certificate 512 571 1,153 Appoinitment 7,590 I 99 365 91 1,165 Government County Scholerships (awards).
Sixty-five Governnent Schol�rshi and one BJ.air ScholaTship one John 7ray Ex..1-libition Government and Government-aided results for this exruninatioo on May 31st in the year of the ex�mination.

of the Governnent County Scholarship Secondary oust be over 10 years and under 12 years of aee Schools ,·rere awarded on the Examin�tion.

Candidates ps, three Centenary all tenable at Exhibitions , (2) Overseas · Exe.ruinations: Examinations No.of No.

of Subjects No.
of Subjects No.

of Candidates taken Passes ry London G.C.E.0rdina Level London G.C.E.Advanced Level 2,977 702 11,208 1,004 1,350 259 Subjects tJ'!ken at Advanced Level but passed at 0rdinery Level-215 12i!.

:.l passes Div,2 passes Div.

3 passes Cambridge School Certificate Cambridge Higher School Certi­ 1,026 10 61 100 ficate 54 12 17 (Principal Level) (Subsidiery Level) s) M.Sc .<Ee onornic B.A.

( General) B • Sc • (Ee onomic s ) • B.Sc .

(Sociology) :s·.

Sc.

(Estate LL.B Intennediate LL,B.


Certificate of Proficiency �,ne.gement) in Religious Knowledce Diploma in Theology Intermediate Divinity Institute of Book-keepers ry Prelimina Intermediate .Associate Fellows Number ex.-inined Number passed 1 8 3 12 17 1 1 103 89 70 35 1 3 4 2. .

.. :- .. ' 45 46 18 13 /London •••••.


-12 - Number exa�fned Number passed London Chanber of Coanerce Elementacy Intermediate Higher Royal Society of Arts Elemente.cy Intermed Adve.nceµ ie.te 160 i43 141 23 29 13 of Costs and i1orks Institute Council of Legal Education Law Society The Association of The Ass_ociat ion of Certified Accounts 5 Bar Examinations .
13 2 3 Incorporated Statisticians and Corporate 29 42 17 8 9 1 6 Accountants s of Secretarie of Transport Institute The Corporation The Institute The Chartered The Society Institute British Institute of Management Collece:of Preceptors A.C.P.

& L.C.P.

of Fire Engineers of Colllr.1ercial Accountants of Secretaries 34 99 1 11 2 2 1 2 J<.IV.

Finance; ·· The exr:>endi tu.re from United Kingdom V -Appendix "G").

:Table wes $529,989.21.


funds of the De�artQent, for the period under review, The incr2ase over the previous including Development was 37,101,212.48 expenditure (see 0 year's expenditure 1960/61 School Year Education Dep�rtoent: Primary Education: Teacher Salaries Grants (Maintenance :Miscellaneous :!llic�enditure on &luc�tion from & Equipment) $5,200,204.96 213,949.08 18,689.57 ·Development Funds 428,630.90 Secondary Education Grants to Aided Secondacy Schools 308,913.99 �eacher Trainin5 etc.
Sa°laries Maintenance Conditional Scholarships and Training of Students 62,352.14 80,125.55 Courses for Tecchers :Miscellaneous 31,550.20 10,800.90 184,828.79 Technical and Vocational Trainin� GoverDI!lent Carnegie Fredericks Technical Institute School of Home Economics School of Hooe Econocics 157,878.47 91,729,91 2,400.00 252,008.38 /Pre-vocetional ••••.

Q -13 - � .

0 e " Pre-vocational Treining in Pri�0ry; Schools &.
!_uiprient SaL:ries Examinations Other Education 22,129.30 60,795.17 87,168.69 170,093.16 on Training Expenditure abroad(Bri Education tish Guiana: of Blind Children Schol�rships .Scholarship) in 'llinid.ad 13,759.12 2,552.50 16,-311.62 Administration Salaries Travelling Miscellaneous Non-Recurrent 189,917.45 28,738.90 5 ,38-1-.42 224,040.77 7,017,671.22 New School Fecdinr Scheme 83,541.2 6 TotalS7,101,212.48 OTH..� EXPENDITURE ON EDUCf,.TION(see Table V -Appendix 11G 11) " Prinary; Education Public ''forks Dept.
r�,intenance control of Educ~,tion under Dcpart□ent of Govt.

Buildinr;s 1.Recurrent 2.Non-Recurrent 45,730.04 8,125.77 Erection of new Educational Buildincs 1.Primary 2.Seconde,ry 3.Handicraft and Domestic Science 219,129.68 14,027.33 Departments 155,190.
18 442,203.00 Medical Departnent School Medical Schools Dental Service Officer and Staff not available II II Secondary Education Queen's Bishops' Anna Regina Secondary School Collese �igh School 266,300.00 137,300.00 4,743.91 408,343.91 Medical Depertment Training of Nurses & Dispensers not available Anriculture Depart□ent Training Professi onal Officers of Apprentices and Junior not e,vailable Esseouibo Boys' School 8,758.11 8,758.11 /14 •..• -14 - Miscellaneous TeacheriPensions & Gratuities Sallation Arey Remand Home for Boys Salvation Arrrzy- Home for Delinquent Girls Grants to Churches for Services among • • • $264,554.73 3,799.16 10,550.00 Amerindians Grant to Public Free Library ncies Fund Colonial Students Contrib�tion to u.c.w.I.
Eich ibition Fund - U.C.W.I.

W .I.

Students Continge Centre in the U.K.-Contribu tion 23,700.00 113,530.00 6,000.00 102,544.00 27,305.00 Payments in respect of Officers awarded C.D.

& w. Scholarships not available ·· Allowances C.ontribution to Students at I.C.T .A.

to British Colonial Office for l,l03.00 to 6,451.60 Welfare of Students in Eire 2·,688.00 Contribution to expenses of Students Liaison Officer in U.S.A. not available qrants to I.C.T.A.

Loans to __ Overseas anq.


University Students 33,528.00 98,071.74 693,825.23 Total$�53,130.25 • • 0 Append.ix "A" TEXIBNICAL & VOCATIONAL No.

of Enrolment " .., .lJ ,, Ti:..BL.T<: I Numbers and Descriptions of Schools by Enrolment and Education Level at 31st August, 1961 PRIMARY .No.of M Schools Enrolment No.

of 8reONDA�Y Enrolment TFACHER TRAINING No.


of Enrolment F Total Schools M F Total Schools M F Total Schools M F Total Government 81 Aided 256 Unaided 18,055 17,184 35,239 3 713 522 1235 1 48,233 45,901 94,134 14 3620 2808 6428 ,;: , · 74 75 149 *2 340 177 517 .

;..

- - - 1 - 71 71 .. , Total 337 66,288 63,085 129,373 17 4333 3330 7663 1 74 75 149 3 340 248 588 Note Primary Schools Secondary Schools Technical & Vocational- figures The enrolment not included above.
The enrolment for aided schools ment of approximately 3,500 pupils.

for aided schools are for 327 schools, the figures for 10 being unavailable.

are Nursery schools represents 13 of the 14 schools (see appendix 'E9.

The unaided schools had an·enrol� of 588 students The enrolment Technical Economics, Science training for about 1,062 boys and 654 girls from a few primary schools.

Institute and in the rural areas.


Twenty students of the Government full-time attending evening at Carnegie School of Home Economics.

and 1,998 persons Six Handicraft represents classes in Domelliltic Science Training at the Carnegie were trained School of Home in-Domestic College Centres and three d.Dmestic science centres provided only.

There were also 776 part-time students at the Government *Does not include Demerara Bauxite Company and Port Mourant.
� .. TABLE II A Analysis of Teacher Personnel Apptmdix 1B1 PRIMARY �ONJllt.i.tff TOOHNICAL & VOC.l.TIC-NAL POST SECONDARY Govt.

.A.idea ·Unaided Total Govt.

Aided Unaided Total Govt.

Aided !unaided Total Teacher Training Total M F M :F M F M F M F M F M F M F M F M F M F M F M F F M .

-- Graduates Trained -- Untrained .,.

- 3 1 2 - 3 2 15 10 14 12 - - 29 22 19 12 .

26 ·15·- .- 45 .27 1 - - - - - 1 1 -1 1 1 - 1 .

.. 6 - 1 - 6 - 1 - -....


COMPLETED SECO� COURSE Triined 137 83 Untrained 100 102 NOT coM.:.

PLEI'ED SECONDARY COURSE 293 248 284 317 Trained Untrained 170 277 .. 464 700 430 384 331 419 2 5 11 8 8 4 102 59 13 13 no 63 1 4 15 2 - -- - - ' 4 1 15 2 .

-.

-- 2 - .. .

.. - 2 .. -· -- .

•· 634 977 .

.

· -- I -· -7 - 6 - 13 -...... ---.

.

.

- - - - .. ..;.

- ... -- .. -·· Total 407 462 11046 1266 -.

._ .. 1453 1728 44 _31 153 94 ·- • 197 125 17 15 6 .
- 17 21 6 3 6 3 C � .. \ll TABLE II B Teacher Training .• - Description of Course Number of Students admitted during Institutions the year Total Students 31.8.61 APPENDIX 11C11 Students �assing final examination • General Government Training Professional and Academic-1 College Domestic Carnegie Subjects: School of Home Economics 1' Home·Science - V,ale Female Total Male Female Total Number % Passes 75 75 150 74 75 149 *150 99.33 .. - 17 17 - 17 17 17 100.00 Handicraft Government Technical and Woodwork - Institute 1 no COUl ses _duriI � the year .. Total � - ,.
.

.- ' 3 .. 75 92 167 74 92 166 167 99.40 *One student from the 1959-60 Course took the final examination 1961.

-,..._ ,.

I -- - TABLE III A A:eEendix "D" General F.ducation -Enrolment b;>!

: Level ·of Educ::-.tion and Ag-e Prima!'J!

: F,ducation M ' .

.

---.

-·-· .... Preparatory Division Lower Division Middle Division Upper· Division .. .

� .

·-.

I .

.. TOTAL Number enrolled according to age A(lst Yr. .

- F B(2nd Yr.) -·M F A(3rd yr .)

B(4th ·yr .


)· A(5th yr) ·:s(6tb yr) A(7th yr.) B(8th yr) : .

TOTAL .M F M F M F M F M F M F M F Under 6 Between 6 and 7 7 and and 9 9 and 10 ' 10 and.
11 1193 3023 3057 130 131 - - 1 3 91 135 - l 5 - - 9 801 : 968 2607 2632 2581 2469 1509 1218 560 ·· 401 205 98 1005 819 2327 2428 2544 2457 1589 1425 523 760 llll 356 106· 43 8 67 38 ·290 151 - - - - - - - - - - - - 2 - - - - - :28 29 2 - 1 - 180 196 15 22 2 4 748 861 110 176 36 33 ll909 2006 589 759 158 177 J.937 1941 1384 1641 471 536 11412 1230 1810 1620 1404 1552 680 476 1452 1075 2955 2805 .'
..... 2544 2473 5017 6965 6751 8130 7919 8305 7949 13716 : 16049 16254 8325 7886 16211 7346 14819 7057 14356 7473 7299 6126 6075 5072 .. ·--·- 4557 5659: .. 5462 12201- ...

I 10731 .. iool9 -·--- , 11 and 12 21 14 87 70 482 12 and 13 14 3 13 and 14 .1 1 1 1 ·-.. 34 22 8 5 2 .J : 137 59 ; 15 ; .

.

13891 12780 9023 8313 9202 8762 8422 7962 - .

.. 8465 8189 .

-.

·- :i896 6739 5362 5293 5027 5107 ..

., .. 66288 63085.

129373 ·- I ' .

'!.,,J -c..� ' ....

I II II II II I!

n " Ove:r: 1_4 TOTALS • • ·.


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I I ' I : I ' !

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,{ � f• ·,.

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;.,: .

"� ,'.

General Educa·Fon -Enrolment by Level of Education and J.ge.

Seconda:zy Education ,.� j vi " ,, 0 q �· f c- .A:ppendix "E" . '

,-,,:!"
'� ·--,�-~ ... ,!- c''j, _.,... - - 1st yr. 2nd yr. 3rd yr. 4th yr. 5th yr. 6th yr. 7th yr. Total M F M F M -F M F M F }11 F M F M F .,_-i � ' ' TOT.AL Under 11 22 - Between ll and 12 145 79 - - 23 - Between 12 and 13 272 Between 13 and 14 257 272 111 60 212 286 279 Between 14 and 15 141 85 Between 15 and 16 140 Between 16 and 17 72 Between 17 and 18 Between 18 and 19 - - Over 19 8 .... 73 43 1 - - 187 176 98 70 100 56 33 28 6 9 1 - - - - - 1 - - - 14 2 - - 122 132 4 - -312 269 92 24 3 - 144 118 254 302 86 39 80 51 179 178 169 146 58 31 106 56 93 135 45 22 94 44 74 38 9 2 .
40 23 118 35 7 51 22 118 69 56 6 74 11 22 - 22 169 79 248 397 334 731 669 623 1292 735 554 729 602 654 496 : 454 332 .. 1289 ' 1331 .. 1150 786 3 - 38 12 45 26 320 213 533 10 26 184 97 280 -- 765 845 678 785 627 769 627 543 393 238 176 96 64 ,f333 3330 1057 .. � .

.

.

lJOTE: The above figures do not include the enrolment figures for one secondary school, viz.

Cambridge .Acaderqy.

- 7663 !

.

.

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�' TABLE IV Appendix "F" ENROLl&"P:r Ill TmINICAL AND VOCLTIOl'IAL COURSES CTHER THAN TE!.CH:RR TRAINHJI O!if 3lsi f.UGUSJ:··, '1961 • ... ·-- Government ·Aided· ... •·-.

--,.

Unaid.ed - ..... .

.

.

..... - - T<?

:�a_l ....... ,, ..... .. .

.

-- ·- Description of Course -- .. .. - .. ,.

--· Full-time · Craft, Block· Release Preliminary Trade Building M .

-.. F M Total F. .

Total M 103 ' 5 -....... !

103 5 28 !


20 - - - .... Electrical Trade 28 Fitters and W.achinists 20 Motor Vehicle Trade 46 46 Wood Machining Trade 9 .

Building Sandwich 'Sandwich Course �lectrical Course· ..

Mechanical Course Land Surveying Engineering : ·- Course Sandwich Handicraft Teachers', Course Oonnnercial Day Course - Domestic Subjects -lwusewifery - - - - - - '26 ... 151 29 8 42 36 -14.

- - 42·-.

.

.... 36 -·14 26: 151 .. 9 29 8 i ,.

F Total M ' .--- I ·p. '

' ' .. .


103 5 28 : 20 46 ' ·9 '29 8 -· - - - - -; .- - ... T<YrAL . '

I I .... .., ·-.. - 103 .-· 5 _.-- L� 28 ·,· .'

..., _ c·.

.. " ,c ...... � ·, .

46 - 9 J 20 I I I I 29 ,, C - 8 !

, .. -.

-___....-..

I 42 -.

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'"'.

.

I .

·--- .. .

--... : -- .. ....

I 1 .. .

- .. - .. .... .

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tr--· -·-·· ···-- ·-.

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- - .

.

42 -... 36 .

---- 14 .. -� ····-· - .

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-· ••· .

.,_ • .

·• • • r • .

•••-••; .. - .


• 36 --.!

• .. • .. · ---· 14 26 222 .. .. ; 26 - .. ·-· ... .

222 - - .

·i Total ... 340 177 517 • -., n·· --.

• ... ····••··.

.. ... .. 340 .

248 .

588 I.

• • e I; .'

[ < I � '•""· •.

O r TABLE V Aopendix "G" EXPENDITURE Olv EOOCATION DUROO THE IF.AR ENDOO 31st .AUGUST 1 1961 Primary Education Secondary: Teacher Technical Education Training Vocational Education & Other Recurrent Non - Administra.- tive (non- allocated.
a $ Total Recurrent TCYl'.AL $ $ $ $ $ $ $ ' - Education Department 6,031,567.67 I s College Queen Bishops' High School Anna Regina Sec.
School 308,913.99 - 266,300.00 - - 137,300.00 - - - 4,743.91 - - - 14,027.33 - 155,190.18- 184,828.79 252,008.38 16,311.62 - - - - 224,040.77 7,017,671 1,101,212.48 .22 83,541.26 266,300.00 - 266,300.00 137,300.00 - 137,300.00 4,743.91 - 4,743.91 Public Works Denartment 264,859.72 Medical Department Agriculture De�artment Essequibo Boys' School - - - above) 264,554.73 Miscellaneous(other Departments than 1ot ava,ilable hot available - 8,758.11 - - - - 34,631.00 394,639.50 434,077.23 8,125.77 442,203.00 8,758.11 - 8,758.11 693,825.23 - 693,825.23 Total -· 6,560,982.12 731,285.23 •.
184,828.79 450,587.67 410,951.12 224,040.77 8,562,675.70 91,667.03 8,654,342.73