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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 of these full-time classes is a Hong Kong school certificate with passes in specified subjects. Full-time courses at craftsman and pre-apprentice level are also offered. 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 at professional, technicians' and craftsmen's levels. A two-year part-time in-service course for training teachers of technical subjects and an 11-week part-time day release course for workshop and trade instructors are also offered. A new full-time course for radio mechanics and two new part-time day release courses, one for land surveyors and the other in office management, were started during the year. New evening courses-included soil mechanics and geology, supervisory studies, textile chemistry 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 train- ing to qualified seagoing officers and technicians. The navigation department runs a radar observers course. The department of textile industries began a wool course in 1965 and the mechanical and production engineering department operates a productivity centre. Since its inception in 1961, 28 productivity courses have been offered to over 473 managerial and supervisory staff from local factories representing some 15 different industries.
Local and overseas firms, organizations and individuals support the work of the college by generous donations of materials, equip- ment, scholarships, and funds for specific projects. Examples of equipment and material received during the year include a new