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EDUCATION
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were university graduates and 15,121 were non-graduates qualified for the teaching profession. Another teachers were engaged in tutorial, evening and special afternoon classes, and 187 were in special schools. At the end of 1969–70 school year the ratio of pupils to teachers in all types of primary and secondary day schools was 31.7:1.
Most teacher education 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 Education for diploma holders from certain other post-secondary institutions. Specialist third year courses are offered to prepare non-graduate teachers to be specialists in Domestic Science or Mathematics (at Northcote), Art (at Grantham), Music (at Sir Robert Black) for teaching these subjects in the higher forms in 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-year's duration. These courses lead to the award of a certificate granting qualified teacher status.--
Since September 1969, the Morrison Hill Technical Institute has been co-operating with the colleges of education in offering special full-time one-year and two-year courses for the training of technical teachers.
In September 1970 there were 1,114 students in the two-year courses, 23 in the special one-year course, 44 in the specialist third year course, 1,061 trainees in the in-service training courses, and 15 in the one-year and 20 in the two-year course for special full-time training of technical teachers.
ADULT EDUCATION
Adult education is provided by the Education Department in the Evening Institute, the Technical College and Technical Institute Evening Departments, the Evening School of Higher Chinese Studies and 12 Adult Education and Recreation Centres.