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the Ho Tung Technical School for Girls, with an enrolment of 272 girls in a five-year course with emphasis on commercial, domestic and industrial subjects; the Junior Technical School, with 267 boys undergoing a secondary technical school course in general subjects, woodwork, metalwork and technical drawing; and the Technical College with 328 students doing full-time courses at post-secondary level in building and engineering, radio technology, radio operating, and commer- cial subjects. Short courses are offered for radar maintenance technicians, and for ships' officers preparing for Ministry of Transport Certificates of Competency. Students are prepared for the external examinations referred to earlier.
The Technical College Evening Department, with 4,275 students, gives senior and advanced courses in building, electrical and mechanical engineering, naval architecture, and telecommunications, corresponding to the National Certificate Courses in the United Kingdom. Shorter courses are offered in book-keeping and shorthand, field surveying and internal combustion engines, this last course being taught in Chinese. Classes in building, mechanical and electrical engineering, taught in Chinese, were opened for the first time in Septem- ber. In English, there are classes in engineering and building, mathematics and technical drawing for apprentices and artisans whose basic education is insufficient for entry into the senior courses.
The Trade Schools of the Salesian Society give a 5-year apprenticeship training in mechanics, electro-mechanics, carpentry, shoemaking, tailoring and printing. Instruction is in Chinese, but English is included in the curriculum. One of the schools (at Aberdeen) is residential.
Technical education is also provided by a number of private commercial and technical schools, but standards of accommodation, equipment and tuition vary greatly. Most of them offer evening classes only, the subjects including civil, mechanical, automobile, electrical and aeronautical engineering, commercial subjects, radio servicing and dress- making. Commercial subjects are taught in both day and evening classes. The medium of instruction is English or Chinese for the engineering classes, and English in the commercial classes.
Adult education is provided through classes of the Evening Institute, the Technical College Evening Depart-