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EDUCATION
When fully developed, the Morrison Hill Technical Institute will provide places for approximately 1,200 full-time and block release students and 600 part-time day-release students. Part-time evening students are expected to number about 9,000, many of whom will attend classes at outlying centres administered by the Technical Institute.
VISUAL EDUCATION CENTRE
The Audio-Visual Education Centre of the Education Department provides on loan to all schools a large range of audio-visual materials. The centre, whose facilities are extensively used by teachers, houses a wide range of modern equipment as well as darkroom and photo- graphic facilities.
TEACHERS AND TEACHER TRAINING
In March there were 32,157 full-time and part-time teachers employed in government and registered day schools, of whom 7,758 were university graduates and 14,764 were trained non- graduates. Another 5,573 teachers were engaged in tutorial, evening and special afternoon classes, and 156 were in special schools. At the end of the 1968-9 school year the ratio of pupils to teachers in all types of primary and secondary day schools was 31.6: 1.
Most teacher training is carried out by the Education Depart- ment's three Colleges of Education, Northcote, Grantham and Sir Robert Black. All three colleges offer full-time two-year courses designed to produce non-graduate teachers qualified to teach in primary schools and the lower forms of secondary schools. A special one-year course is offered at Northcote College of Educa- tion for diploma holders from certain other post-secondary insti- tutions. Specialist third year courses are offered to train specialist teachers in mathematics, domestic science, music and art. These courses are intended to train teachers for the upper forms of secondary schools.
The colleges also provide in-service courses of training for un- qualified teachers. These are part-time evening courses, in either Chinese or English, of two years' duration. Successful students are awarded a certificate granting qualified teacher status.