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'File 19/248 II (C 83) Education at Bahrain' [8r] (26/464)
The record is made up of 1 volume (229 folios). It was created in 28 Jun 1940-20 Nov 1941. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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Bxtract from Report on ffro^rese in Education -
December 1939 - May 1940•
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A large building, formerly the premises of the
Eastern Bank in Bahrain, has been rented, to be opened as
a ]?inal Stage school in October# The building provides
three very large classrooms on the ground floor, besides
headmaster's and mastera T rooms, and a small library.
Above, there is boarding accommodation for six masters#
The sixty double desks required for this school have been
made by the Carpentry Section of the Technical School,
and the masters' rooms are now to be furnished in the
same way. The school is intended to accommodate, next
October, the pick of all the boys at present in the four top
classes of Manamah, Muharraq, and Hidd schools, and after
it is opened there will be no ITinal Stage accomrnodat 1 ou
at all at any of the other schools, which will become
Intermediate and Infants' Stage schools only, until such
time as the Infants are removed to separate schools, when
they will become Intermediate Schools solely# The new
Final Stage school will be staffed by new masters entirely,
obtained from abroad#
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This file contains correspondence related to the development of education in Bahrain. The correspondence discusses the appointment of Geoffrey E. Hutchings as head of the Technical College in Bahrain and the replacement of C.R.L Adrian-Vallance as Director of Education (with F.J Wakelin).
The file contains details from a report completed by C.A.F Dundas (the Near East representative of The British Council) regarding a proposal for the establishment of a Gulf College in Bahrain on ff.52 - 56 and ff.95 - 100, and an official British Council report for the 2nd quarter of 1941 (ff.178 - 189).
The education of Indians resident in Bahrain is also discussed in the file. f.118 contains a list with the exact number of Indians resident in Bahrain.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (229 folios)
- Arrangement
File is arranged in chronological order, from earliest at beginning of the file to most recent at end.
The file has an index of the topics contained within it on folio 2. The page numbers used in this index relate to the inconsistent, uncircled pencil foliation system.
- Physical characteristics
A bound correspondence volume. There is an incomplete foliation sequence and a complete foliation sequence. The complete foliation sequence is circled in pencil, in the top right corner of each folio. It begins on the title page, on number 1, and runs through to 226, ending on the inside of the back cover of the volume.
Foliation errors: 2A.
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- 'File 19/248 II (C 83) Education at Bahrain'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:i-v, 1r:2v, 2ar:2av, 3r:10v, 11v, 13v:28v, 29v:39v, 44v:50v, 64v:65v, 67v:88v, 89v:90v, 93v, 100v:104v, 113v:132v, 133v:137v, 139r:147v, 148v:156v, 158v:164v, 165v:173v, 176v, 177v, 189v, 190v, 197v:200v, 201v:205v, 206v:225v, ii-r:ii-v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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