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evelopments are to be found. The Principal and his staff have obviously spent
a great deal of time and thought devising practical courses which will more
nearly suit industrial needs. Of particular interest are the arrangements for
staff development which are being pursued with imagination and vigour. This is
of course the most important aspect of the work of the Institute at the present
stage and it was good to see an integrated programme of staff training involving
periods in Britain together with local guided experience. The existing Teacher
Training Department is being groomed for these purposes and it would be
expecially useful if it is agreed that TERG should send a teacher training team
to the Wulsan Institute of Technology during a vacation, if they could call in
at the Morrison Hill Technical Institute on the way back and spend a few days
running a 'workshop' for the staff of the Department. They can pass through
Hong Kong on the way back from Seoul and a few days stop over there would be of
particular importance to the future development of the technical teacher train-
ing arrangements in Hong Kong. The present staff/student ratio is on the high
side at the present juncture but it is expected to drop as the Institute courses
fully develop. Meanwhile more emphasis needs to be given to the training of
workshop and laboratory assistants thereby saving the staff time currently
spent carrying out relatively menial tasks and thus enable them to concentrate
on their teaching. It also enables one to plan the operation of the laboratories
and workshops and thereby make their use much more effective.
2.3 It is understood that ultimately there are to be three or four technical
institutes of this type and that they will all be engaged in similar work.
This would seem to be an expensive method of providing skilled workers for
industry particularly as at the same time it makes inadequate provision for
the lower level or industrial-type technician. A far more effective arrange-
ment would seem to be to develop industrial training centres to carry out the
basic craft work, as has already been recommended elsewhere, leaving the
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