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Production Engineering, Commerce, Textiles, Electrical Engineer- ing with Telecommunications, and Navigation. The medium of instruction is English and applicants for admission are required to have a general education to the level of the Hong Kong School Certificate.
The Technical College Evening Department offers courses in the same subjects. Courses are of one, two, three and five year's duration, according to subject and standard. Most of them are 'grouped' courses in which students study a number of related subjects, single subject courses being exceptional. Preliminary courses in general subjects are available for apprentices and artisans whose general education does not permit admission to the Certificate courses. Only a few courses are taught in the medium of Chinese, since the majority of students prefer to enrol for courses given in English.
Students take the examinations of the Institutions of Mechanical Engineers and of Electrical Engineers, the City and Guilds of London Institute, the Institute of Builders, the London Chamber of Commerce (book-keeping and Pitman's shorthand).
A conference on technical education, attended by representatives of the Federation of Malaya, Singapore, Sarawak, British North Borneo and Hong Kong, was held at the Technical College in April.
The Victoria Technical School, with an enrolment of 569, is a secondary technical school for boys. Entry is by competitive examination. In addition to the normal academic subjects, pupils are taught metalwork, woodwork, technical drawing and workshop technology. At the end of the five-year course, pupils sit for the Hong Kong School Certificate Examinations in technical and academic subjects.
The Ho Tung Technical School for Girls is also a secondary technical school where the curriculum combines general subjects with homecraft, dressmaking and embroidery, industrial arts such as pottery and weaving, and commercial subjects. Many of these subjects are taken in the School Certificate Examinations. The enrolment is 336.
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The Salesian Order operates two private technical schools-the Aberdeen Technical School and the Tang King Po School. The