Report of Public Instruction in the Punjab and Its Dependencies for the Year 1884-85.

by Denzil Ibbetson

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 ...numbers continue to increase at this rate, both accommodation and staff will shortly need enlargement. The former difficulty will be provided for by the transfer of the Central Training College to a new building which the liberality of Rai Mela Ram and some of his friends is enabling us to build. Measures for meeting the latter are now under consideration. Notwithstanding the large increase in numbers, the expenditure has risen from Rs. 46,477 to Rs. 49,674, or by only 7 per cent., while the fee income has risen from Rs. 2,760 to Rs. 3,717, or by 35 per cent., the fact that the increase is proportionately smaller than the increase in the number of students being explained by the fact that the latter is most marked in the lower classes. The expenditure on College scholarships has risen from Rs. 12,420 to Rs. 16,160, of which increase Rs. 2,280 has fallen upon Provincial revenues, under the old rule by which one scholarship was allotted to every four passes. Now that the University has definitely declined the transfer of the Government allotment, new rules have been issued fixing the number and value of College scholarships maintained from Provincial revenues as nearly as the fluctuating nature of the figures permits us to do. In a few years it will probably be possible to attain still greater fixity in this respect. The fact that 78 non-scholarship holders attended the College against 53 last year is most gratifying. 54. The results of examinations are summarised below. This year, for the first time, the results of the University examinations, by which the work of the year under report is tested, have been noticed, and consequently we have the figures of three years to compare instead of those of two III.--UNIVERSITY EDUCATION. 45 The results of...

74 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2012