EDUCATION
Adult Education
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Adult education is provided by the Education Department in the Evening In- stitute, the Technical Institute Evening Departments, the Evening School of Higher Chinese Studies and 14 adult education and recreation centres.
The Evening Institute offers English courses from elementary to post-certificate level; teachers' classes for art, music, handwork, woodwork, physical education, modern educational dance, modern mathematics and the teaching of English; and secondary school courses leading to the Hong Kong Certificate of Education, both English and Chinese. A three-year post-primary extension course providing additional training with a practical bias is also available for those who do not anticipate further education at the secondary school level. Rural literacy classes and general background classes provide fundamental and elementary education with special reference to adult needs and interests. Practical background education classes give adults an oppor- tunity to learn woodwork, housecraft, sewing and knitting. Adults have a complete educational ladder from the literacy level to post-secondary studies. The total number of classes provided by the Evening Institute is 756 in 75 locations in both urban and rural areas.
The Evening School of Higher Chinese Studies offers a three-year course in general arts leading to a diploma issued by the Education Department. Subjects taught include Chinese literature, philosophy, sociology and English language and literature. Most of the students are primary school teachers. There are 14 classes in two centres.
At the 14 adult education and recreation centres, education and recreation are combined in activities ranging from music appreciation and physical education to group study of art, photography and dramatics. These activities are expressly designed to stimulate creative ability and develop individual talents, with the aim of fostering a community spirit.
Apart from its regular activities, the Adult Education Section has from time to time designed various schemes which aim at serving the community at large. In con- junction with the Prisons Department, several classes giving instruction in general subjects with a moral and civic emphasis, and also in subjects of a practical nature, are organised for inmates at different prisons. Classes are also held at the Aberdeen Rehabilitation Centre in co-operation with the Social Welfare Department.
Educational Television
The Educational Television Services (ETV), which opened in the Educational Television Centre in September 1971, completed a successful year of transmissions in the four subject areas of Chinese language, English language, mathematics and social studies to over 100,000 children in the third year of their primary schooling.
These programmes have been revised and re-issued to third year primary school- children in the academic year commencing September 1972, while new programmes in the same basic subject areas have been devised for fourth year primary school- children. Approximately 220,000 primary schoolchildren will, therefore, benefit from ETV in the current academic year.