HC Deb 25 March 1927 vol 204 cc744-7W
Mr. T. WILLIAMS

asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies if he will circulate in the OFFICIAL REPORT a complete statement showing the number of children attending school in all terri-

STATEMENT showing the number of children attending school in British Colonies, Protectorates and Mandated Territories under the control of the British Government; the proportion under 14 years attending school compared with children not attending (where available); and the cost per child per annum.
Colony, etc. Year. Number of children enrolled. Proportion of children under instruction to population of school-going age. Cost of Education. Cost per child per annum.
£ £ s d.
East African—
Kenya 1925 European 926 — 78,832 3 2 6
Indian 1,644
Arabs and Natives approx. 22,677
Northern Rhodesia 1925–26 81,554 — 18,181* 0 4 6
Nyasaland 1925–26 163,804 — 4,000* 0 0 6
Somahland‡ 1925 47 — 235**§ 5 0 0
Tanganyika Territory 1925 172,041 1 in 4.6 28,491 0 3 3
Uganda 1925 172,602 — 24,595 0 2 10
Zanzibar 1925 2,712 1 in 9 12,041 4 8 9
West African—
Gambia 1925 1,569 — 2,606 1 13 3
Gold Coast 1925–26 32,827 — 125,339 3 16 4
Nigeria 1925–26 474,663 — 171,557* 0 7 3
Sierra Leone 1925 11,927 — 30,766 2 11 7
Mediterranean—
Cyprus 1925 41,426 — 59,369 1 8 8
Gibraltar 1925–26 2,610 — 10 156 3 17 10
Malta 1925–26 21,515 — 98,154 4 11 3
South African—
Basutoland 1925 42,629 — 35,836 0 16 10
Becbuanaland Protectorate 1925–26 7,157 — 3.397 0 9 6
Swaziland 1925 13,603 — 6,090 0 8 11
Middle Eastern—
Palestine 1925 19,881† — E. 101,392 E. 5,100
Eastern and Pacific, etc.— Rs. Rs.
Ceylon 1925 466,979 1 in 2 7,031,940 15
Mauritius 1924–25 35,480 — 1,396,368 39.4
Seychelles 1925 2,660 — 28,108 10.6
$ $
Hong Kong 1925 32,974 — 1,019,905 30.9
Weihaiwei 1925 711 — 2,676 38
Straits Settlements 1925 58,008 — 2,439,021 42
Federated Malay States 1925 54,496 — 2,684,893 49.3
* Estimated.
† Pupils at Government Schools only.
‡ Education is mainly in the hands of the Mullahs.
§ Of this sum £200 was on account of the cost of the education of Somali students at the Gordon College, Khartoum.

tories under the control of the British Government; the proportion under 14 years attending school compared with children not attending; and the cost per child per annum in each different area?

Mr. AMERY

The figures are as follow:

Colony, etc. Year. Number of children enrolled. Proportion of children under instruction to population of school-going age. Cost of Education. Cost per child per annum.
Eastern and Pacific, etc.—cont. $ $
Unfederated Malay States 1925 20,167† — 593,638 29.4
£ £ s. d
Fiji 1925 19,295 — 28,462 1 9 6
Western Pacific—
Gilbert and Ellice Islands — — — 4,006* —
British Solomon Islands 1924 15,180 — 300 0 0 5
New Hebrides — — — — — — —
Tonga 1924 4,600 — 5,300 1 3 1
St. Helena 1925 646 — 615 0 19 0
West Indian, etc.—
Bahamas 1924–25 9,400* — 15,922 1 13 11
Barbados 1925 22,982 — 43,779 1 18 1
Jamaica 1925 117,874 — 155,271 1 6 4
Turks and Caicos Islands 1925 1,091 — 970 0 17 9
Leeward Inlands 1925–26 26,095 — 23,246 0 17 10
Tinidad and Tobago 1925 57,725 — 119,196 2 1 4
Windward Islands—
Grenada 1925 11,480 — 9,661 0 16 10
Saint Lucia 1925 8,198 — 6,864 0 16 9
Saint Vincent 1925 5,033 — 5,248 1 0 10
Bermuda 1925 3,535 — 13,316 3 15 4
British Guiana 1925 42,424 — 85,877 2 0 6
$ $
British Honduras 1925 7,953 — 68,816 8.7
£ £ s. d.
Falkland Islands 1925 348 — 2,147 6 3 5
* Estimate.
† Partly estimated.
GENERAL NOTE.—The statistics of expenditure given in the above table represent the amount spent on education by Governmnts of the Colonies, Protectorates, etc., only. A considerable part of the expenditure on education in the le-s developed Colonies, etc., is defrayed by the various Missionary Societies; while in Colonies where the standard of education is relatively high denominational bodies frequeutly erect their own schools and usually bear a considerable part of the cost of maintenance.
Owing to the absence of up-to-date statistics of the number of children of school-going age in the Colonies, Protectorates, etc., it has been found impossible to furnish the information required except in the one or two instances where particulars were given in the Education Report.