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653. At the post-graduate level there are 21 students in the School of Education and 21 students in the Institute of Advanced Chinese Studies and Research. In the matriculation examination held in the summer of 1965, a total of 3,584 candidates sat and 1,100 passed. The total number of first-year students in the current academic year is 517.
The Technical College has a total enrolment of 11,558 students in 77 courses, comprising 1,270 full-time students in 49 classes, 327 part-time day students in 18 classes and 9,961 evening students in 352 classes distributed in 22 centres. The college has seven depart- ments: building; surveying and structural engineering; commerce; electrical engineering; mechanical and production engineering; textile industries; navigation; and mathematics and science. These provide full-time courses leading to the college's own higher and ordinary diplomas and to the associate membership examinations of many British professional institutions, a number of which have granted exemption from certain parts of their examinations to students in the higher diploma courses. The academic standard required for entry to most full-time classes is a Hong Kong school certificate with passes in specified subjects. Applicants outnumber the places available by about eight to one. Instruction is in English for the majority of the courses.
The seven departments also provide part-time day and evening courses. These lead to college certificates and to City and Guilds of London Institute and other qualifications in a wide range of technical and commercial subjects, the former being at professional, technicians' and craftsmen's levels. A two-year part-time in-service course for training teachers of technical subjects is also offered. A new full-time course for marine engineers and four new part-time day release courses for civil engineering supporting staff, clerical staff, draughtsmen and industrial supervisors were started during the year. New evening courses include management studies, indus- trial safety, estate management, fire prevention and fire resisting con- structions, and continuation courses for technicians and craftsmen.
Besides the higher and ordinary diploma courses, the electrical engineering department offers courses for first and second class radio officers, and courses in radar maintenance which give training to qualified seagoing officers and technicians. The department of textile industries began a wool course in 1965 and the mechanical