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Technical Education. The opening of the new Technical College in Kowloon which replaces the twenty-year old building on the Island was an important development in technical education in the Colony. The new building, which is illustrated elsewhere in the Report, will cost more than $5,000,000. Rather more than half this sum has been sub- scribed in the form of donations in cash or in equipment by local commercial and industrial interests. An Advisory Com- mittee for the new department of textiles has been formed and the mechanical engineering curriculum now includes more production engineering subjects. At the beginning of the session there were 345 full-time and 5,432 part-time students. Courses, some full-time, some part-time, at the Technical College include mechanical and electrical engineer- ing, building construction, naval architecture, telecommu- nications engineering, field surveying, mathematics and commerical subjects. The courses range from part-time day release courses for Health Inspectors and engineering apprentices to courses for Ministry of Transport Certificates of Competency and the equivalents of the Ordinary and Higher National Certificates offered by technical colleges in the United Kingdom.
Two other government schools, the Victoria Technical School with an enrolment of 389 boys, and the Ho Tung Technical School for Girls with an enrolment of 275, provide five-year secondary technical courses together with such specialized courses as woodwork, metalwork and technical drawing for boys and domestic science, embroidery and needlework, pottery and woodwork for girls.
The Salesian Society operates two schools offering techni- cal and trade courses, and is adding a secondary technical school to the artisan section. In addition, a number of private colleges and schools offer technical courses at various levels.
Adult Education is provided through the classes of the Evening Institute, the Technical College Evening Depart- ment, the Evening School of Higher Chinese Studies and by