Report to the ... Zionist Congress and to the Council of the Jewish Agency in ... · 1935-08-01 · 8.1935 · p. Seite 405

merits enabling it to secure its stability and to extend its activities. This is the first time that the Government has shown real interest in the position of the Institute and its progress. The question of a permanent grant by the Government for its maintenance has not yet been settled. The Administrative Board of the Institute decided to allocate one half of the grant for building and the other half for acquiring machinery and instruments for the laboratories and the workshops. £P. 5,000 will be expended on the erection of a special building for the two Trade Schools attached to the Institute, namely the Artisans' School and the Secondary Trade School, and a separate house for the hydraulic laboratory. These two new buildings are being erected in the southern court of the Institute. From the second half of the grant £P. 2,000 has been allocated for the mechanical workshops, £P. 1,000 for the electrical workshop and laboratory, £P. 1,000 for the purchase of instruments for the existing laboratories, and £P. 1,000 for repayment of previous sums expended on the laboratories and workshops. 8. The .Artisans' School. No change has taken place in its internal structure. As heretofore it consists of two sections for locksmiths and turners who are trained also in blacksmithery and autogenic smelting. The number of its pupils in 5694 was fifty-six, divided into three classes, including a group of twelve boys from Germany who entered the school in the spring of 1934. The number of pupils reached seventy in 5695, including sixteen boys from a group of religious youths from Germany. The increase in the number of pupils naturally entailed an increase in the number of teachers. Two instructors have been added, one for locksmithery and the other for blacksmithery. The total number of instructors to date is six. It was also found necessary to form for the pupils from Germany a parallel class in various subjects. In connection with the opening of the Secondary Trade School mentioned above, certain alterations have been introduced in the curriculum of the Artisans' School. It has been decided to adapt the Artisans' School to a larger extent to the requirements of the recent immigration that has brought into the country "boys of a higher age who were unable to obtain a systematic education and who are interested mainly in obtaining now a trade training. It has therefore been decided to accept into the Artisans' School, beginning from 5695, only boys of sixteen and over, to increase the working hours in the workshops to five per day or to thirty per week apart from the morning recess and the cleaning up of the workshops, and to decrease the hours of instruction in theoretical studies by ten to twelve hours per week. As already explained, the number of pupils from Germany in the Artisans' School has been considerably increased, and they constitute at present one third of the total. About fifty locksmiths and turners completed their, courses during the years 5691-5694, and all of them have found employment in factories and workshops in the country. 4°5