System of Payments of Grants-in-Aid to Non-Governmental Schools in Palestine before 1948 (Nakba), British Mandate: A Survey of Palestine: Volume II - Page 648. Chapter XVI: Social Services : Section 2: Description of Education Systems :

CHAPTER XVI.

The number of applications and admissions to the lowest class of town boys schools in various years are given hereunder.

Table 8.

PUBLIC TOWN SCHOOLS.

---Before the
expansion Under the expansion scheme and later
scheme
-- }ga2 1933 ---
1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 194-4
Applications I 4,898 8,Gll 7,726 8.277 7,875 H,597 8,716
I 8,738
Admissions I i. '" I s.soo ".rn a, sos <. ors '•"' <. sso < * '"
Percentage of
admissions to
applications 45% 65% 41% 'l 1% 48% 54% 51% 54% '!'here are now 78 town schools with about 31,000 pupils as against 54 schools with 12,000 pupils in the school year 1932/33 before expansion.

(b) RURAL EXPANSION.

61. The expansion and development of rural education which ceased in 1922 was resumed in the autumn of 1934 and has been more marked than in towns. Government has made provision for the opening of new schools and The extension of old but a great part of the expense has fallen on the local authorities. Thus the number of public village schools has increased from 257 schools with 16,133 pupils in the school year 1933/34 to 426 schools with about 49,000 pupils in the present school year (1945/46). This quantitative advance is due very largely to expenditure by the village authorities, at first on buildings only, latterly on staff also. Government contributes to capital expenditure and still pays the

great majority of the teachers. *

62. The plan has been to provide a four-standard, one-room, boys' school in every village with a male population of 300, or in any group of smaller villages within a short radius of each other, and to establish girls' schools wherever a teacher can be provided. The Women's Rural Teachers Training Centre at Ramallah produces about twelve teachers a year.

Practically all larger villages already have schools but these need constant enlargement as the school-age population grows. The very great majority of rural schools are now in good public buildings,

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