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of vocational and professional courses leading to a number of qualifications, including the LLB of London University.
A Department of Extra-Mural Studies established during the year at the Chinese University of Hong Kong offers about 75 courses at present, the majority of which are conducted in Cantonese or Mandarin. In addition to the normal range of cultural, com- mercial and general interest topics, Chinese studies are specially featured, together with a category of subjects entitled 'East-West Understanding'.
TEACHERS AND TEACHER TRAINING
In March there were 25,643 full-time-and part-time teachers employed in registered day schools, of whom 6,954 were university graduates and 11,792 trained non-graduates. Another 4,922 teachers were engaged in tutorial, evening and special afternoon classes, and 129 were in special schools. At the end of the 1964-5 school year the ratio of pupils to teachers in all types of schools was 28.5:1. School classes are planned to have a maximum of 45 pupils in primary classes and 40 in secondary classes.
Most teacher training is carried out by the Education Department's three colleges-Northcote Training College, Grantham Training College and Sir Robert Black Training College. The Sir Robert Black College, and to a lesser extent the Grantham Training College, provide primarily a full-time one-year course for students from secondary schools who may obtain a primary teacher's certificate after two years of satisfactory teaching. Instruction in these courses is in Chinese. Both colleges have now started full-time two-year courses for Chinese language students. At Northcote Training College there are two-year courses for both English language and Chinese language students. The two-year courses qualify teachers for upper primary and lower secondary classes. A special one-year course for diploma holders from the colleges which now form the Chinese University is designed mainly for training teachers for Chinese middle schools and Anglo-Chinese secondary schools. The English two-year course is recognized in Britain for employment as a qualified teacher.
The colleges also organize in-service courses of training for un- qualified teachers. There are part-time evening courses, either in
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