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of 2,874 pupils, mainly give trade training. The conversion of all government secondary modern schools to secondary technical schools will be completed by the end of July 1965. The number of pupils remaining in government secondary modern classes is 1,580 and there are 833 pupils in a subsidized secondary modern school.
There has been a steady expansion at the secondary level and enrolment figures for full-time secondary day schools have increased from 112,705 in September 1962, to 134,678 in September 1963, and to 150,026 in September 1964. During the school year 12 secondary school buildings and extensions were built, providing 9,745 additional places.
HIGHER EDUCATION
The University of Hong Kong was established in 1911 with endowments which have been added to since and a grant of land from Government which also makes substantial recurrent and non-recurrent grants. In 1963-4 government capital grants totalled $6,976,552 and recurrent grants $12,574,000 towards a total recurrent expenditure of $16,926,810.
There are faculties of arts, science, medicine and engineering and architecture, enrolment being 866, 318, 430 and 318 respectively. The Institute of Oriental Studies has 57 language students, the education diploma and certificate courses 75 and the social study courses 26. Of this total of 2,090 students, 166 are part-time, 18 external and 693 are women. Most of the undergraduates are Hong Kong Chinese, but many other nationalities are represented, partic- ularly from south-east Asia.
In May 3,670 candidates entered for Ordinary and Advanced Level subjects in the University's Matriculation Examination, of whom 939 fulfilled minimum requirements for entry. A total of 535 undergraduate places was available for new students in the current academic year.
The University's development programme will bring the total undergraduate body up to about 1,850 by 1965-6. Meanwhile with government support the University has embarked on a pilot scheme providing a full law degree curriculum. This scheme, at present conducted under the aegis of the Department of Extra-Mural