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industry and commerce an inducement grant is payable for the duration of
the course. The present range of in-service courses comprises a three-
year evening course for prevocational school teachers, a two-year evening
course for teachers of design & technology in senior secondary forms and
a day-release course on educational theory and practice for teachers serving
in the technical institutes. The TTC also provides courses for industrial
trade instructors and organises seminars covering a range of subjects for
the professional development of serving teachers and administrators.
Assistant Director (Technical) is responsible for the administration of
the TTC.
Retraining of teachers
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The
There is a growing awareness in Hong Kong that initial training
is not sufficient to last throughout the professional lifetime of a teacher,
and this is reflected in the 1980 Green Paper, which takes up the proposals
of the 1978 White Paper for refresher training by stating that the
retraining of teachers, which should be compulsory for those entering the profession from September 1981, will consist of an eight-week period of
continuous training to be undertaken within five to ten years after entry
into the profession and a second period of eight weeks about ten years
later. Retraining courses are also proposed for teachers in schools
If accepted as White intending to adopt the 'learning by doing' approach.
Paper policy, these proposals will obviously take a very long time to implement in full (especially as they go hand-in-hand with extensive commitments to train kindergarten teachers), but they represent a major initiative towards improving the quality of teaching. Retraining will be a joint responsibility of the colleges of education and the Advisory Inspectorate (whose role is described in chapter 7).
Training of permitted teachers
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Training problems created by the existence of permitted