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retirement, leaving the profession or other cause. But
it is a conservative estimate and does not take account
of a higher ratio of staff to pupil required in Form VI;
nor does it allow for the staffing needs of private
schools save to the extent to which these provide "bought"
places.
6.
How is this heavy additional demand to be met?
The two universities will, in consequence of their approved
expansion between now and 1978, substantially increase
their output of graduates in the next few years. It is fair
to assume that there will be a proportionate rise in the
numbers of graduates who will enter the teaching profession.
Nevertheless, it is clear that the demand for graduate
teachers, as set out in Part I of Table I, cannot be met
from local sources.
7.
One solution would be to recruit graduate teachers
from abroad. The prospects of doing so in sufficient
numbers are not encouraging. In any event, it would probably
be more costly than present arrangements which would both be
beyond our financial resources and produce a divisive effect
within the teaching profession in Hong Kong. The solution
therefore, lie in a more sparing use of our limited
number of graduate teachers and a rapid expansion of
training facilities for non-graduate teachers.
must,
8.
The proposed method would be to utilise trained
non-graduate teachers in the planned expansion of the
junior secondary forms (that is, Forms I - III). While it
is not Government's intention to alter the present
arrangements in existing schools, future vacancies in these
forms should also be filled by trained non-graduate teachers.
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