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EDUCATION
Community Youth Club
The Community Youth Club (CYC) aims to provide community education for its members through activities within the schools, with particular emphasis on training young people to become good citizens.
The club has a membership of more than 65 000. Major activities during the year included the first CYC Annual Parade, the Clean Hong Kong cartoon competition, the Fight Youth Crime project design competition and exhibition, and the Clean Hong Kong creative dance competition. Other activities were jointly undertaken with government departments and other organisations, including the Family Life educational telematch games design competition, the Go-Metric telematch competition, the Anti-drug poster design and Chinese essay competitions, and the Consumer Education price survey. A total of 575 schools participated in the activities.
At the district level, the CYC district committees continued to warn against drug abuse and smoking, and to promote community activities such as Clean Hong Kong, fire prevention, road safety, moral education, conservation of the countryside, and care for the aged and the underprivileged. Exhibitions and quizzes on Know Your District were also organised. Over 200 members achieved Stage II awards of the CYC Merit Award Scheme; 24 members also gained Stage III awards. The scheme requires members to set an example of good citizenship by service to the community. Eight outstanding CYC members were awarded trips to Australia during the summer, made possible by a donation from the Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club.
School Library Service
The school library service continued to expand with the appointment and training of more school librarians in secondary schools. In September the library grant was raised from $10 to $20 per pupil per year for all government and aided secondary schools. A pilot scheme for class libraries in primary schools was introduced in September with experimental class libraries established in Primary 5 and 6 classes in 25 schools.
Two seminars on Books and Young Readers were organised in April and December for 600 secondary school teachers. In July, a workshop on Library-assisted Teaching and the Learning of Science Subjects was attended by over 80 secondary school science teachers.
Education Television
The Education Television Service (ETV) celebrated its 10th anniversary in September. ETV-produced programmes are regarded as the most useful audio-visual aid currently supplementing classroom teaching, and regular viewing has become a normal part of Hong Kong's school life. ETV's total audience during 1982 was estimated to be 262 000 secondary and 348 000 primary school pupils.
The programmes are produced locally, in colour, by the Education Department and Radio Television Hong Kong, and are transmitted by the commercial television stations. They are based on syllabuses used in primary and secondary schools. Notes for teachers' suggested preparation and follow-up activities and, in the case of primary school programmes, notes for pupils are also provided. Evaluations supplied by teachers, questionnaires, visits to schools by ETV producers and inspectors, and reports from inspectors of the Advisory Inspectorate have resulted in many improvements to ETV since its inception in 1971.
Primary school ETV programmes cover the four basic subject areas of Chinese, English, mathematics and social studies taught at Primary 3 to 6 levels. Secondary