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Australian Society of Accountants, Pitman's Institute, the London Chamber of Commerce, and the City and Guilds of London Institute. The standard required for entry to full-time classes is the Hong Kong school certificate and applicants outnumber the places available by about six to one. Instruction is in English for the majority of the courses.
Part-time day and evening courses leading to the college ordinary and higher certificates, and to the City and Guilds of London Institute and other qualifications, provide instruction in me- chanical, production, structural, electrical and telecommunications engineering, architecture, management studies, housing manage- ment, building construction, commercial design, field surveying, textiles spinning and weaving, industrial chemistry, laboratory technician's work, dental mechanics, refrigeration, accountancy, book-keeping and shorthand. A two-year part-time course for training technical teachers is also offered. The productivity centre which forms part of the mechanical and production engineering department of the college continues to provide short courses in such subjects as materials handling, plant layout, work study and quality control, with Cantonese as the language of instruction.
Construction work has begun on the new five-floor workshop block to be built with a donation of US$250,000 (approximately HK$1,400,000) from the American Government. The building should be completed early in 1964. When the workshops are fully equipped, there will be facilities for vocational courses in carpentry and joinery, bricklaying, plastering, decorating, plumbing, welding, machine fitting and electrical installation and repair work. Pre- apprenticeship courses for a number of major trades will also be offered.
Firms in Britain continue to offer student apprenticeships to students in the electrical engineering and mechanical and produc- tion engineering departments. A new development was the selection of two students in the textiles department for training in Britain by a textile firm. The total number of places offered in 1963 for overseas training was 18, including two from an Australian firm.
Post-Secondary Colleges are post-war institutions, the impetus behind their establishment being the influx of students and teachers from universities and colleges in China during the years 1947-50. The present enrolment is 3,147. The Post-Secondary Colleges