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EDUCATION
Part-time day and evening courses leading to the College Ordinary and Higher Certificates and City and Guilds of London Institute qualifications provide instruction in mechanical, produc- tion, electrical and telecommunications engineering, naval archi- tecture, navigation, building construction, builders' quantities, structures, field surveying, plumbing, textiles spinning and weaving, industrial chemistry, laboratory technician's work, dental me- chanics, refrigeration, accountancy, book-keeping and shorthand. During the year several new courses were opened, including those leading to the ARICS, IStructE and Associateship of the Australian Society of Accountants qualifications; part-time courses for training technical and shorthand teachers were also started and a pre-sea course for nautical apprentices and cadets was re-opened after being suspended for two years. As part of the Mechanical/ Production Engineering Department of the College, a Productivity Centre was inaugurated in October to provide short courses in such subjects as materials handling, plant layout, work study and quality control.
New laboratories for heat engines, production engineering, metrology, electrical machines and electrical instruments were brought into use. A donation of $100,000 was received from Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd to provide, with a similar amount from Government, a new library building, the drawings for which have already been approved.
Post-Secondary Colleges are post-war institutions, the impetus behind their establishment being the influx of students and teachers from Universities in China during the years 1947-50. The present enrolment in the colleges is 3,864. The Post-Secondary Colleges Ordinance (1960) provides for the registration and control of the Colleges and for their exemption from the provisions of the Education Ordinance. The object is to give statutory recognition to those institutions whose status approaches, but does not attain, that of a university. In December 1960, Mr L. G. Morgan, OBE, former Deputy Director of Education in Hong Kong, was appointed Adviser, Post-Secondary Colleges. In March 1961, three special advisers, Sir James Duff, latterly Vice-Chancellor of Durham University, Dr R. Mellanby, CBE, Head of the Department of Entomology at Rothamsted Experimental Station, and Professor F. Folts, of the Harvard School of Business Administration,