Indian Education

They suggest that the increase of grants for the maintenance of secondary and technical schools should be accompanied by a condition requiring the local authorties and the Governing Bodies of such schools to contribute towards the superannuation of the teachers employed in them and stipulating that these contributions should be in proportion to the teachers' salaries. [...] The Committee recommend that no part of the benefits obtained either by the contributions of the teacher or by those of the employer should lapse to the employer by reason of the teacher's employment coming to an end The Committee raise the questions whether a teacher in a secondary school should be enabled as he is under the University scheme to anticipate his benefits by leaving at any time b [...] The committee were chargedwith the duty of considering (r) the proper place and function of the Sunday School in relation to the needs of the child the life of the home and the membership of the Church ; (2) the present condition of the Sunday School as regards school buildings organisation and equipment supply and training of teachers curricula and methods of instruction ; (3) the needs of th [...] to show that there are other things to be thought of besides school-work in the education of the young and that the health and the general utility of the man are as important as the possession of a School Final or a Matriculation certificate. [...] With reference to the first the Press Note says that the answers to the problem depends mainly on the true answers to two questions : (1) Is Urdu the mother-tongue of the Mahomedans of this Presidency ? (2) Is a knowledge of Urdu essential for the religious needs of the community ? The pamphlet emphasizes the difficulty that arises from the fact that Urdu is not the official vernacular of any par