English subjects
Mathematics & geometry
Science
Technical drawing
Art
Drill
Building construction
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Year 1
Workshop (carpentry plumbing and painting)..
Year 2
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carpenters, building construction
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92. Part-time day classes for apprenticed carpenters and other craftsmen are provided in a few large towns in England and it was reported in 1926 that the system might be expected to grow. The school training of most builders and craftsmen was then carried on mainly in evening classes. In the Survey of Technical and Further Education in England and Wales from which we have already quoted, it is pointed out that what the building craftsmen needs is instruction in the theory of his craft, some additional workshop practice and some exercise in drawing, geometry and cal- culations. The Survey explains that "Builders" (e.g. office employees, builders' sons or craftsmen aspiring to become foremen, clerks of works, managers or master builders) are primarily interested in building construction and drawing and later in quantity, estimating and accountancy. But the Survey adds that these "builders" are usually slow to realize the importance of mathematics and science as a foundation for advanced study of structural work.
93. The character of well organized instruction in evening classes in England may be inferred from the following examples:
Course for Builders
Year 1
Construction & drawing Building mathematics Geometry, building science (Each one evening)
Years 2 & 3
Construction & drawing
(2 evenings)
Science (1 evening)
Course for Carpenters
Year 1
Trade knowledge Drawing, workshop (Each one evening)
Year 2
As in first year
In setting out these specimen courses the Board of Education Whitehall, advised that the course for builders might in the best organized schools be extended to a fourth or even a fifth year "in order that further aspects of the building industry might be studied with specialization according to individual needs.
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94. Mr. MacKichan had unfortunately left the Colony before our Report was Mr. formulated. The idea of the Junior Technical School and what it might do for the MacKichan's building trade was, however, discussed at a meeting which he attended. He sub- sequently pointed out in a letter addressed to our Chairman that it must not be forgotten that most recruits for the building trade in Hong Kong are illiterate, the best having had very little education and that in vernacular primary schools. To try and place such boys in a Junior Technical School and to teach them there science and allied subjects, would, in Mr. MacKichan's opinion, be difficult, and the results