connected with co-ordination of training at University level, the progress of in-service training, and plans for a survey of the future needs for trained social workers in Hong Kong. Recruitment material prepared by a Sub-Committee of the Advisory Committee has just been published by the Social Workers' Association to be used for recruitment campaigns in secondary schools. It is expected that this will help to promote a greater understanding of social work and greater interest in social work
as a career.
109. Government continued to provide bursaries for students at the University of Hong Kong, both for the Diploma and the Certificate courses, as well as for students taking a university arts degree with the firm intention of proceeding afterwards to the Diploma course. The total value of bursaries awarded during the year was $94,500, held by six Certificate and six Diploma students, as well as seventeen arts degree students who intend to proceed to the Diploma. During the year three new bursary awards were made to Certificate students and four to under- graduates studying for a degree to be followed by the Diploma. As the community becomes increasingly aware of social work as an absorbing and rewarding career, it is expected that the number and quality of candidates for the courses at both the Universities will rise correspond- ingly.
110. Scholarships are also badly needed so as to attract students of the highest calibre; it was an act of remarkable foresight and generosity and of great historical significance for the profession in Hong Kong when, to mark its centenary in March, the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation presented very handsome endowments to the two Universities, sufficient to provide each with an income of about $25,000 a year for scholarships in social work, as briefly mentioned in paragraph 4. The object of this splendid gift is to encourage students of the highest possible merit and calibre to embark on University training for a career as social workers.
111. During the year six officers of the Department completed courses at oversea universities-these were in Social Welfare Administration at the University College of Swansea, in post-graduate Social Work Courses leading to the Degree of Bachelor of Social Work or Master of Social Work at Toronto, and in training in Audio-communicative Disability in New York.
112. At the end of March, ten officers were still engaged in higher studies abroad; two for the degree of Master of Social Work (in their
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