CAMPBELL, Michael
The Public Service,
Accession Number 002243
- British Empire and Commonwealth Museum
Source
- 4
Total Reels
- Elizabeth Friend (British Empire & Commonwealth Museum)
Interviewer
- 02:23:54
Total Running Time
- English
Language
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Reel/Disc 1 of 4
Metadata
- 22 Sep 1994
Recording Date
- 00:46:40
Running Time
- MP3
Format
- Citation/reproduction requires written permission from interviewee
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Synopsis
Joined Colonial Education Service. Studied in School of Oriental and African Studies, London. Came to Malaya as gunner in 1940. Appointed Assistant Master at Kuala Kangsar. Director of Education Dr. W. Linehan. About students. Teaching pottery. Working hours. Gun drills. Mobilised in December 1941. Fighting the Japanese. Life as prisoner-of-war (POW). Lectured at "University of Changi". Worked on Death Railway. Demand for education by 1946. Medical condition and food rations. Anecdotes of matron and inexperienced doctor. How Chinese and Malays regarded European women. Recuperation programme. Languages taught in schools. Trained pupil-teachers in six schools.
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Reel/Disc 2 of 4
Metadata
- 22 Sep 1994
Recording Date
- 00:47:12
Running Time
- MP3
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Synopsis
Trained pupil-teachers in six schools. Working life. Staff members. Learning phraseology in Malay. Not ashamed introducing new teaching methods because two different scripts were taught. Effects of Malayan Emergency. Impression of Sir Edward Gent. Maria Hertogh riot. Sent to Singapore to take charge of Teachers' Training College (TTC). Plan to expand English schools. First impression of TTC. Trained TTC trainers first. Return to Perak and new working life. Creation of New Villages. Views on atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Robert Thompson. Kampong Coldstream. Missionaries appointed as Settlement Officers by Sir Gerald Templar.
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Reel/Disc 3 of 4
Metadata
- 22 Sep 1994
Recording Date
- 00:46:32
Running Time
- MP3
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Synopsis
Missionaries appointed as Settlement Officers. Chinese Secretariat officials and meetings. Sir Gerald Templar. No office diaries allowed. "Staff rides" and inspections by Sir Gerald. Effects of Emergency on schools in North Perak. Left Malaya in 1953. Administration of education in Perak. Attended lectures on Marxism. Appointed Principal of Victoria School, 1954. No class distinction in school. Students from many races. His marriage. Appointed Principal Assistant Director of Education. Bottom-up approach in dealing with education syllabus. Brief impression of Chew Swee Kee. Left for North Borneo and worked in Education Office. His work after 1961.
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Reel/Disc 4 of 4
Metadata
- 22 Sep 1994
Recording Date
- 00:03:30
Running Time
- MP3
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Synopsis
His work in field of education upon his return to England.
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