number of places in technical institutes should be on commercial courses, though this proportion may increase if so justified. While the Government proposes for the time being to continue to associate commercial and technical education within the same institution, it welcomes the development of private institutions providing courses for one or more of the commercial professions. A notable development of this kind is the Hang Seng School of Commerce, providing courses related primarily to banking. Government is assisting the establishment of this School by providing free grant of land.
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It is highly desirable that students with mild physical handicaps should have the facilities they require to enable them to receive technical education. The design of the Kowloon Tong Technical Institute has been modified to enable it to accommodate about 40 handicapped students and the technical institute proposed for Tuen Mun could also be designed to accommodate handicapped students. There is also provision for handicapped and disturbed students to receive vocational training in several centres run by the Social Welfare Department and by voluntary agencies.
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It is planned that the maximum practical capacity of the technical institutes and its division between technical and commercial courses at the post-Form III and post-Form V levels by each mode of attendance should develop as illustrated in the table on the following page.
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