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EDUCATION
cultural, commercial and general interest topics, Chinese studies are specially featured, together with a category of subjects entitled 'East-West Understanding'. At the same time, five new courses leading to the award of a departmental certificate have been in- troduced, including a two-year course in hotel management.
TEACHERS AND TEACHER TRAINING
In March there were 26,945 full-time and part-time teachers employed in registered day schools, of whom 7,142 were university graduates and 12,744 trained non-graduates. Another 5,095 teachers were engaged in tutorial, evening and special afternoon classes, and 151 were in special schools. At the end of the 1965-6 school year the ratio of pupils to teachers in all types of primary and secondary day schools was 30.4:1. 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 Depart- ment's three colleges-Northcote Training College, Grantham Training College and Sir Robert Black Training College. The Sir Robert Black College provides 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 is in Chinese. All three colleges are now offering full-time two-year courses designed to produce non-graduate teachers qualified to teach in primary schools and the lower forms of secondary schools. The English two-year course at Northcote Training College is recognized in Britain for employment as a qualified teacher. A special one-year course is offered at Northcote Training College for diploma holders from the colleges which now form the Chinese University and certain other post-secondary institutions. This course is designed mainly to train teachers for Chinese middle schools and Anglo-Chinese secondary schools.
The colleges also organize in-service courses of training for unqualified teachers. There are part-time evening courses, either in Chinese or in English, of two-years' duration. Successful students are awarded a certificate granting qualified teacher status.
Students in full-time courses are required to pay fees of $400 per annum, but are permitted to apply for interest-free loans not