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needy students. In September there were 1,084 students in the two- year courses, 19 in the special one-year course, 50 in the one-year course at Sir Robert Black and 973 in the in-service training courses.
The Department of Education of the University of Hong Kong offers to graduates a one-year full-time course leading to a diploma in education and a two-year part-time course leading to a certificate in education. The department also provides a one-year part-time qualifying course for students who seek to enrol for the MA (Ed) degree. The School of Education of the Chinese University, in- augurated in 1965, offers a one-year diploma course of professional training to graduates and introduced in September a two-year part- time evening course for serving teachers, also leading to a diploma of education.
ADULT EDUCATION
Adult education is provided by the Education Department in order to make up for educational deficiencies, and to improve employment prospects and prepare better adult leaders, especially teachers.
The Evening Institute offers English courses from elementary to post-school certificate level; teachers' classes for art, music, hand- work, wood-work, physical education, modern mathematics and the teaching of English, secondary school courses leading to the English and Chinese school certificates, and a three-year post- primary extension course providing additional training, with prac- tical bias, for those who do not anticipate further education at the secondary school level. Rural literacy classes and general background education classes provide fundamental and elementary education with special reference to adult needs and interests. Practical back- ground education classes give adults an opportunity of learning wood-work, housecraft, sewing and knitting. Adults in the Colony now have a complete educational ladder from the literacy level to post-secondary studies. The total number of classes organized under the Evening Institute is 774 in 72 locations in both the urban and rural areas.
The Evening School of Higher Chinese Studies offers to holders of the English or Chinese School Certificate a three-year course in general arts leading to an Education Department diploma. Subjects