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is not conducted on a regular basis, the Green Paper proposes that
intensive in-service courses should be organised for school heads,
covering school administration, leadership, staff relationships, accounting,
curriculum planning and development, extra-curricular activities, remedial
teaching, visits to other primary schools and other relevant topics and
activities. It is thought that if the courses are to be effective they
should involve all government and aided primary school heads and be
conducted in small groups wherever possible. In the primary sector,
successful completion of such a course would then be made a condition of
promotion to Head. The Education Departinent is now taking steps to
establish a training unit which will be responsible for this type of
training, together with that of secondary principals and other key
personnel in education. The Green Paper also notes that because the
effectiveness of any school probably depends more on the calibre of the
head teacher than any other single factor, it is open to question whether
the Director of Education should in future take a more active part in
the procedures for the appointment of heads: certainly, the current
procedures need reviewing.
Training of graduate teachers
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For the
Initial teacher training of university graduates is at present
confined to the two universities in their Schools of Education. In the
Chinese University, the School offers a one-year full-time course and a
two-year part-time course leading to the Diploma in Education.
convenience of serving teachers, two types of part-time course are
provided a part-time evening course and a part-time day course (classes
mainly given at weekends during the year in addition to the summer school
holidays). Applicants must be graduates of recognised universities;
those applying for the part-time courses must also be serving secondary
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