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done by the Education Department's three training colleges— Northcote College, Grantham College and Sir Robert Black College. Northcote College moved into fine, new premises in the spring, and Sir Robert Black College occupied more spacious temporary premises in the new building of Kowloon Dock Memorial School.
Grantham College and Sir Robert Black College offer a full-time one-year course for students from secondary schools. Instruction is in Chinese and the course qualifies successful students to teach in primary schools. Northcote College offers, in addition to the one-year course, a two-year course in which instruction is given either in Chinese or English according to the section selected. It also offers a special one-year course to graduates of post-secondary colleges designed to train teachers for Chinese middle schools. Successful students from these two courses are qualified to teach in upper primary and lower secondary classes. The two-year course is recognized by the Ministry of Education in Britain for employ- ment under the Burnham Scale. Students who have completed the teacher training courses are awarded a certificate after two years of satisfactory teaching. Students from the two-year course and special one-year course are given a teacher's certificate; students from the one-year course are given a primary teacher's certificate. Training colleges organize continuation classes for students during their period of probationary teaching.
The colleges also organize in-service training courses for un- qualified teachers. These are part-time evening courses, either in Chinese or English, of two years' duration. Successful students are given a certificate granting qualified teacher status in either primary or secondary schools, depending on the particular course followed.
Teacher training courses are free and in the full-time courses maintenance grants may be made in cases of need. During the year there were 171 students in the two-year course, 51 in the special one-year course, 801 in the one-year course, and 1,443 in the in-service training courses. The Evening Institute also organized an in-service training course similar to that of the train- ing colleges to enable unqualified teachers to obtain a qualification for primary teaching. The enrolment was 198. The department of education of the University of Hong Kong offers a one-year