'File 19/248 III (C 88) Education at Bahrain'

Title:

'File 19/248 III (C 88) Education at Bahrain'

Date:

1941/1945

Description:

Abstract: This file contains correspondence and reports regarding the development of the education system in Bahrain.The correspondence is primarily between the Residency in Bushire, the Agency in Bahrain and the British Council in London.The file contains a report regarding the work of C.R.L Adrian-Vallance during his tenure as the Director of Education in Bahrain (November 1939 until July 1941) and correspondence about (and from) Adrian-Vallance’s successor, F.J Wakelin. Wakelin’s contract and expenses details are also enclosed.The file contains correspondence regarding the difficulties of recruiting teachers locally and encouraging teachers from abroad as well as more general discussions about education in the region.The file also contains correspondence between the Agency in Bahrain and the Agency in Muscat regarding the behaviour of six students from Muscat who were enrolled in secondary school in Bahrain and subsequently sent back to Muscat for misbehaviour.Physical description: Originally a bound correspondence volume, the file's sheets have been unbound and are now loose. The file's complete foliation sequence is circled in pencil, near the centre, at the top of each folio. It begins on the title page, on number 1, and runs through to 301, ending on the inside of the back cover of the volume. There are several incomplete foliation sequences and one complete sequence in the volume.

Language:

English

Type:

Archival file

Type (Narrower):

Other Texts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Āl Khalīfa (Family)

Geographic region:

Bahrain
Būshehr

Rights:

رخصة المشاع الإبداعي لأغراض غير تجارية

Identifier:

81055/vdc_100000000193.0x00015c_ar
81055/vdc_100000000193.0x00015c_en
IOR/R/15/1/375
IOR/R/15/1/375

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