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reflected in the grant this year of a number of Government scholarships and bursaries (the latter for intending teachers) tenable for a four-year course at the day colleges. The holders of bursaries will take an arts or science course, and then receive a year's training at a government teacher train- ing college.
The special afternoon classes were formed in 1950 for the benefit of children who were unable to obtain admission to primary schools. They are of two hours' duration, cover general subjects, and are run through the co-operation of a large number of schools, mostly private. Enrolment in 1957 was 19,428.
Training of Teachers. In 1956 19 graduates were awarded Diplomas in Education by the University of Hong Kong, 233 students from the teacher training colleges became certificated teachers on probation, and 277 members of the urban and rural courses of training for teachers qualified as primary school teachers for the purpose of the Subsidy Code. By the end of 1956 385 students were receiving full-time teacher training and 336 in-service teachers were attending the urban and rural courses of training. To meet the demands of expansion, Northcote Training College has now opened a new one-year primary teachers' course for 200, and has also increased the enrolment in its two-year certificated teachers' course. Extra accommodation is being borrowed, pending the construction of a new college. The total enrol- ment in the training colleges for 1957-8 was 677, and in the courses of training for unqualified teachers 409. In all, 12,128 teachers were in service.
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A Professional Teachers' Training Board is responsible for dealing with general matters regarding teacher training and for integrating the teacher training of the Government and the University.
A great deal of voluntary education and welfare work is carried out by various bodies in Hong Kong. The Kaifong Neighbourhood Welfare Associations provide free
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