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1 . The British Council is now proposinc to keep Height
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in Basra for at any rate another year and to raise the
status of the post to Grade II. This reflects the importance
attached by the Council both to the work he will be doing
in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. and to his duties os institute Director
in this rather isolated station.
2. Kuwait. The section on Kuwait'gives a very clear
picture of "tile present position. The school system seems to
be going through the stage which one always finds in countries
where general education is comparatively new. At this stage
there are more jobs for "soi-di8ant ,, black-coated workers
than suitable applicants, with the result that half-educated
boys are tempted to leave school to take jobs for which they
are not really qualified, in the interests of the country,
the pupils themselves, and potential employers, a careful
study would seem to be advisable as to numbers in all grades
of schools to ensure sufficient boys of adequate education
for the posts available and for some of the more promising
ones to proceed to further education, while allowing lor the
wastage which always occurs for one reason or another in
these countries, in regard to the girls, one may feel quite
confident that, before long, educate^ young men will insist
that a proportion of girls at any rate stay in school long
enough to receive adequate education to become suitable wives
for educated men.
I think the Hostel in Cairo is doing very well. I have
heard good accounts of it recently. Other possibilities for
further education should be considered, however, in case the
Government desires, at some time or another, to break the
educational connection with Egypt.
I feel sure that it would be of great advantage to
* have one first-rate secondary school with two or thre« British
teachers, who will know the standards required for entry to
the universities, both in Beirut and in this country, and it
would be useful if some of the students could, in aue course,
come to Great Britain for university education with
sufficiently souna grounding and knowledge of English to make
a university career a success. Kuwait may not, hov/ever, be
repaired for such a move at present.
Even if there were some British teachers at Kuwait,
the periodic visit of someone conversant with educational
administration is very necessary as the English teachers in
such a school would be unlikely to have much experience of
educational administration in Great Britain or, what is even
more important, the wdjslfc of adopting educational administra
tion to countries suen^as these, in the meantime, height's
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