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EDUCATION
A Computing Centre was established in February 1967. The main purposes of the centre are to assist faculty research and administrative work and to organise the teaching of computer science within the university. A limited number of survey or research projects conducted by non-profit-making institutions have also made use of the facilities of the centre.
The Department of Extra-mural Studies of The Chinese Uni- versity of Hong Kong offered 387 courses and had an enrolment of 9,760 during 1968–9. In addition to general courses, departmental certificate programmes in Chinese literature, general banking administration, tourism, hotel operation, three-dimensional design, and the teaching of modern mathematics in primary schools were provided in the autumn of 1969. The majority of the courses are conducted in Cantonese or Mandarin. The department also offers correspondence courses in English and Chinese writing, English and Chinese language and literature, and business administration.
THE TECHNICAL COLLEGE
The Technical College, including the Morrison Hill Technical Institute, has a total enrolment of 16,280 students in 106 courses, comprising 1,920 full-time students in 69 classes, 560 part-time day students in 25 classes and 13,800 evening students in 460 classes distributed in 24 centres. The college has eight departments: building, surveying and structural engineering; commerce and management studies; electrical engineering; mechanical, production and marine engineering; textile industries; nautical studies; mathematics and science; and industrial and commercial design. These provide full-time courses leading to the college's own higher and ordinary diplomas and to the associate membership examina- tions 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 electrical engineering department also offers courses for first and second-class radio officers, and a three-month course in radar maintenance which gives training to qualified seagoing officers and technicians. The department of nautical studies operates courses for masters and mates of foreign-going vessels and also courses for radar observers. The department of commerce and