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1. 'File 4/16 I Bahrain State Education'
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- Abstract: This file contains correspondence between British officials relating to the development of education in Bahrain (with some reference to Kuwait).Specifically, the file contains details of the reform and expansion of Bahrain's educational system under Director of Education, C R L Adrian-Vallance and his successor, F J Wakelin. Much of the correspondence relates to the hiring of teachers from other parts of the Arab world, including Palestine and Syria. The file contains a letter in Arabic (with English translation) from a group of Palestinian teachers regarding their expenses spent when travelling to Bahrain from Palestine (ff 103-107).The file contains a report written by Adrian-Vallance concerning reforms undertaken between December 1939 and May 1940 (ff 26-37).The file also contains translations of a number of articles about education that were placed in the local newspaper Al Bahrainby Adrian-Vallance in early 1940 (ff 3-15).Physical description: Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover and terminates at the back cover; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. Two additional foliation sequences are also present in parallel between ff 3-18 and ff 19-172 respectively; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled, and are located in the same position as the main sequence.