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full-time instructors. All the university's degrees in professional subjects (medicine, architecture, and civil, electrical and mechanical engineering) are on the same professional footing as those of universities in Britain.
A new Centre of Asian Studies has replaced the former Institute of Oriental Studies and Institute of Modern Asian Studies, and a Language Centre was established at the beginning of the academic year 1968-9.
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 candidates who seek to enrol for the MA (Ed) degree and to successful students offers the MA (Ed) either as a six-term part-time course spread over two academic years, or as a one-year full-time course. As in other departments, the PhD is also available for specially qualified and selected candidates.
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The Department of Extra-mural Studies of the University of Hong Kong provided over 211 evening and day-time courses for adult students in 1967-8. During the period July 1967 to June 1968, 4,727 attended regular courses and 702 attended public lectures, seminars and conferences. Some of these courses are conducted in Cantonese and Mandarin but the majority are in English. Subjects vary from Oriental Studies through a full range of liberal arts and language courses to economics, law and commerce, and include a rapidly growing section of vocational and professional courses leading to a number of qualifications, including the LLB of the University of London and a newly-instituted Diploma in Manage- ment Studies which is recognized by the British Institute of Manage- ment. The latter is a 3-year post-graduate course on production management and is especially designed to meet a need for instruction at University level for present and future managers, executives and administrators who are working at higher middle levels. A popular series of free public evening lectures on The Hong Kong Economic Scene was also given.
The University of Hong Kong conducts its own advanced level examination, the standard of which is similar to that of the GCE advanced level examination. Entry to the university is generally