The Journal of the National Indian Association in Aid of Social Progress and Female Education in India May 1882

It was the intention of.Government that the High School course should be one of -two years following the Middle School Examination ; and the Director himself pointed out in his letter of the 31st March 1879 that the real equivalent to the Middle School Examination was the Bombay Anglo-Vern:Imlay Standard V. the seventh standard being the Matriculation Examination. [...] The obstacles to the success of this part of the scheme appear to be the feeling of ucertainty as to the future prospects of those who join the agricultural class the absence of some distinctive title for those who pais the final examination and the insufficiency of practical instruction owing to the want of a farm of sufficient size for real work and of a school for practical instruction in [...] The principal event in connection with the Bethune School since the publication of the last annual report has been the arrival of Miss Lipscombe who was with the sanction of Her Majesty's Secretary of State appointed last year as the Lady Superintendent of the Institution. [...] The result of the private examinations of the lower classes was on the whole satisfactory and the Committee desire to acknowledge the labours of the teachers and the pundits who have worked well and zealously throughout the past year. [...] The Committee are led to believe that the progress made by some of the pupils of the higher classes in Sanskrit is mainly due to the exertions of the two pundits.