HONG KONG ANNUAL REPORT, 1952
For the first time since 1941 students, who left both the Junior Technical School and the Mechanical Engineering Department of the Technical College, completed four and three year courses respectively. Close contact was maintained with local employers and representatives of organized labour, and successful students were very rapidly absorbed by local industry. Full time day courses are given in building, wireless telegraphy and mechanical engineering, and evening courses in building, engineering, surveying, shipbuild- ing, diesel fitting and wireless operating. Enrolment in the evening department of the Technical College. reached the record figure of 2,600. The Technical Education Investigating Committee, in the process of preparing its report, has issued an interim recommen- dation urging financial provision for extensions to the Technical College in the financial year 1953-54.
The Salesian Society, with the help of government subsidies, already operates two trade schools on the island of Hong Kong, and it is expected that auto- mobile repairing, carpentry, shoemaking and tailoring will be taught in their new school which is being built in Kowloon. Early in 1953, a new Technical School for girls will be opened at Causeway Bay. In the first year there will be a common curriculum for all; the second year will have three courses, domestic, commercial and industrial. The third year will have five courses, domestic, nursing, commercial, art and industrial.
Full time training for students and refresher courses for practising teachers are given at three colleges. Ninety six students are enrolled at the Grantham Training College receiving a one year course for teach- ing in urban Chinese primary schools, 62 at Northcote
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