101. All projected needs for teachers that we define in this Chapter are calculated on the assumption that the supply of new teachers can begin in 1974. In fact, training for non-graduate teachers requires two years and in order to avoid a greatly increased demand on the Colleges, it is essential that the training programme be initiated without delay. We recommend, therefore, that the fourth College of Education for the training of non-graduate teachers for primary and secondary levels be established in temporary quarters as soon as possible.
102. We have indicated in paragraph 98 of this Chapter that the potential annual output from the Universities should be set at some 550. All of these required teachers can be new graduates, but we appreciate that some of the posts available each year may be sought by existing graduates already teaching in schools in the Private Sector. However, we consider it important that the Universities should main- tain an increasing output of professionally trained graduates. We do not assume that part-time University courses of professional training for graduate teachers will produce new teachers; but we have noted that the University of Hong Kong has planned an output from its full-time professional teacher training courses which will rise to 220 per year in 1978, and that The Chinese University of Hong Kong will, from the start of the Autumn term in 1973, introduce concurrent undergraduate courses leading to the B.Ed. and other degrees. We welcome these efforts on the part of the two Universities to play their part in developing education in Hong Kong, but we suggest that both Universities consider the field of their professional support to comprise the annual requirement of 550 graduate teachers for the expansion of secondary education which we have recommended. There is, in addition, the secondary field at F.6 level, and the purely private sector which are not part of the official expansion programme with which we are concerned. Therefore, in order that the proposed expansion of secondary education may be adequately supplied with graduate teachers from the Universities, bearing in mind competition for teachers from other areas of the total secondary field, we would urge the two Universities to give serious consideration to a greater expansion of their graduate teacher training facilities than is at present envisaged.
103. We have found it difficult to assess the requirement for technical teachers, including Workshop Instructors, since policy for technical provision has not yet been fully determined. We have in- cluded in our general totals for teacher requirements in paragraph 98
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