EDUCATION
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During 1973 a series of films showing the exhibition performances of the Danish gymnastic team, were produced in co-operation with the physical education section of the Advisory Inspectorate. Sets of colour slides and black and white photographs were also produced for schools.
Production of the Audio-Visual News Bulletin was continued, and 2,500 copies were issued to schools and educational institutions every three months.
An important development was the setting up of a media production service unit in a government primary school in Kowloon. Photographic and graphic facili- ties, and model-making equipment and tools are available for teachers to produce their own instructional materials.
Teachers and Teacher Education
In March 1973 there were 36,101 full-time and part-time teachers employed in government and registered day schools-8,215 university graduates and 17,009 non- graduates qualified for teaching. Other teachers were engaged in tutorial, evening and special afternoon classes, and 278 were in special schools. At the end of the 1972-3 school year, the ratio of pupils to teachers in primary day schools was 33.2, and 28.2 in secondary day schools.
Teacher education is provided at the Education Department's three colleges of education Grantham, Northcote and Sir Robert Black. All three colleges offer full- time two-year courses designed to produce non-graduate teachers qualified for primary schools and lower forms of secondary schools. Specialist third-year courses are offered to prepare non-granduate teachers as specialists in art or physical education (at Grantham), domestic science or mathematics (Northcote) and music (Sir Robert Black) for higher forms in secondary schools. The specialist third-year course in mathematics is also proving popular.
The colleges also provide in-service courses of training for unqualified teachers. These are part-time two-year evening courses, in either Chinese or English, leading to qualified teacher status. The number of students attending these courses was considerably expanded from September 1972 to cope with the demand for additional trained teachers.
Since September 1969, the Morrison Hill Technical Institute has been offering special full-time one-year and two-year courses for training technical teachers. In September 1973 there were 1,289 students in the two-year courses, 71 in the specialist third-year course, 1,706 trainees in the in-service training courses, and 15 in the one- year and 23 in the two-year course for special full-time training of technical teachers.
New premises for the Sir Robert Black College of Education were under con- struction and expected to be completed by mid-1974. In addition, an extension to Grantham College of Education to provide increased facilities was under construction. Northcote College of Education is also expanding and additional accommodation is being made available.