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building technology, radar operation and textile studies were particularly popular during the year. Part-time day-release courses in technical and commercial subjects are offered through support provided by government departments and industrial or commercial concerns.
The University of Hong Kong
The University of Hong Kong was established in 1911 with a land grant from the government and endowments that have since been increased. Substantial government grants also are made towards the university's annual recurrent and non-recurrent expenditure.
Numbers of undergraduate places in the various faculties in 1977-8 were: arts, 855; science, 517; medicine, 786; engineering and architecture, 931; and social sciences and law, 750. Of these, a total of 1,169 places were available for first-year students. There also were 854 places for post-graduate students - 450 reading for higher degrees and 404 for diplomas and certificates. In the Language Centre, 17 students were reading for the Certificate in Chinese Language. The number of full-time teaching posts including demonstratorships at the beginning of the academic year was 575. All the degrees and other professional qualifications conferred by the university are equivalent to those of universities in Britain.
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The University of Hong Kong conducts its own advanced level examination, the standard of which is similar to that of the GCE advanced level. Entry to the university generally depends on successful results in this examination. Some 4,358 students met the minimum entry requirements in 1977.
The School of Education, officially inaugurated on September 1, 1976, on the occasion of the Silver Jubilee of the former Department of Education, offers graduates a one-year full-time or a two-year part-time curriculum leading to the Certificate in Education. Also offered from the 1977-8 academic year is the Advanced Diploma in Education, a prerequisite for admission to the curriculum leading to the Master of Education degree in the following year. The degrees of Master and Doctor of Phi- losophy in Education are available for specially-qualified and selected candidates. In addition, the university confers higher degrees, diplomas and certificates on suitable candidates for their research or for successful completion of a prescribed curriculum in other disciplines. These include degrees of Masters of Philosophy in Arts, Social Sciences and Law, Science, Medicine, and Engineering and Architecture, and the degrees of Masters of Arts, Science in Engineering, Social Sciences, Social Work, Business Administration, Medical Sciences and Surgery. Doctorial degrees awarded are in the spheres of Philosophy, Medicine, Surgery, Letters, Science, Social Sciences and Laws. Certificates are obtainable at post-graduate level in the fields of law, engineering subjects, Chinese language and medical sciences. Courses leading to a diploma in management studies and Chinese language also are offered.
During 1976, the university began planning a School of Dentistry, which is to be set up in association with its Faculty of Medicine in a programme to further develop Hong Kong's medical and health services. In association with the University and Polytechnic Grants Committee, the university appointed a Dental Academic Advisory Committee to plan the development and curriculum of the new dental school and to help in the appointment of a Dean. The pre-clinical section of the dental curriculum