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P.R.H. 7
HONG KONG GOVERNMENT
pl.extract & JA.
ICES/7/4/70
INFORMATION SERVICE
DAILY INFORMATION
BULLETIN
Wednesday, April 1, 1970
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$6 MILLION NEW COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
Construction Of Sir Robert Black College Begins This Year
Construction of the $6 million Sir Robert Black College of Education
is planned for later this year with an initial vote of $200,000 from the 1970/71 education budget.
The new college at Piper's Hill will replace the existing college
of education in Hung Hom. It is presently occupying premises in a primary
school, where the facilities are inadequate for teacher training. They do
not allow for hostel accommodation.
The new college will take up a 100,000 square-foot site, about
five times the size of its temporary home.
The building is expected to be ready by the middle of 1972. The
curriculum will consist of a basic two-year training course for 400
regular students, and hostel accommodation for 200.
of music.
There will also be a small specialist third-year course for teachers
The complex will include nine blocks of two to five storeys, giving
a total of five classrooms, 22 tutorial rooms, four lecture rooms, 12 specialist
rooms for subjects such as art, domestic science and handicrafts, a language
laboratory, a gymnasium, a library and an auditorium.
In addition to a students' hostal, there will be quarters for wardens
and minor staff.
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