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Diploma course in industrial design. This is a form of training which is utilized by industry in all advanced countries.
The eight 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 range of technical and commercial subjects at professional, technicians' and crafts- men's levels. A two-year part-time in-service course for training teachers of technical subjects, an eleven-week part-time day-release course for workshop and trade instructors, and a plumbing and pipe-fitting part-time craft course, are also offered.
Whenever there is a need for courses on specific subjects of current interest to local industry or to a sufficient number of indi- viduals, the college is prepared to operate short courses to meet the demand. During the year, the college operated a number of short courses of this nature in all departments.
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. Gifts of books to the college library were made by the Asia Foundation, United States Information Agency, Royal Institution of Chartered Sur- veyors, and by individuals.
Firms in Britain and Australia continue to offer places for practical training to students who have completed three-year higher diploma courses, and 24 students took advantage of such oppor- tunities this year. The Cotton Spinners' Association donated a scholarship worth $24,000 to enable two holders of the textile higher diploma to further their studies abroad. Some students of marine engineering and of the deck officer cadet course are sponsored by local shipping interests.
The college continues to offer its facilities for testing purposes. During the year 14,543 concrete blocks were tested for the building and civil engineering industry, and over 3,000 textile tests were made on behalf of government departments.
TEACHERS AND TEACHER TRAINING
In March there were 30,222 full-time and part-time teachers employed in government and registered day schools, of whom