7.58 During the year, the Survey Training School moved from the Technical College to more spacious accommodation in the San Po Kong Government Offices and plans were in hand to expand the training facilities offered at the school.
7.59 All Surveying and Cartographic Assistants Class III are required to pass a departmental promotion examination before gaining promotion to Class II. During the year results were as follows:
Passed Sat Surveying Assistants (Land) 3 5 Surveying Assistants (Engineering) 3 4 Cartographic Assistants (C.L. & S.O.) 9 8 Cartographic Assistants (N.T.A.) 6 17.60 A limited number of entrants who have the necessary academic qualifications to become Student Members of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors are recruited as Student Estate Surveyors and encouraged to take a correspondence course and to attend evening classes at the Hong Kong Technical College. Student Estate Surveyors who were preparing for the final examination were permitted to attend a day-release course at the Hong Kong Technical College on one day each week. There were six officers undergoing this form of training during the year. One student passed the final examination and five passed the intermediate examination (General Section) of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.
Overseas Training
7.61 Three Assistant Planning Officers were awarded Government Scholarships for two-year post-graduate town planning courses at Universities in Australia; two returned after successfully completing similar courses. One Assistant Estate Surveyor and one Student Estate Surveyor began a twelve-month training attachment to the Estates and Development Valuer, Plymouth and two returned after completing similar attachments.
7.62 Two Surveying Assistants (Land) Class II who had passed the intermediate examination of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Land Surveying Section) were sent to the School of Military Survey for a one-year course in advanced surveying.
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The final output is7.58 During the year, the Survey Training School moved from the Technical College to more spacious accommodation in the San Po Kong Government Offices and plans were in hand to expand the training facilities offered at the school.
7.59 All Surveying and Cartographic Assistants Class III are required to pass a departmental promotion examination before gaining promotion to Class II. During the year results were as follows:
Passed Sat Surveying Assistants (Land) 3 5 Surveying Assistants (Engineering) 3 4 Cartographic Assistants (C.L. & S.O.) 9 8 Cartographic Assistants (N.T.A.) 6 17.60 A limited number of entrants who have the necessary academic qualifications to become Student Members of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors are recruited as Student Estate Surveyors and encouraged to take a correspondence course and to attend evening classes at the Hong Kong Technical College. Student Estate Surveyors who were preparing for the final examination were permitted to attend a day-release course at the Hong Kong Technical College on one day each week. There were six officers undergoing this form of training during the year. One student passed the final examination and five passed the intermediate examination (General Section) of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.
Overseas Training
7.61 Three Assistant Planning Officers were awarded Government Scholarships for two-year post-graduate town planning courses at Universities in Australia; two returned after successfully completing similar courses. One Assistant Estate Surveyor and one Student Estate Surveyor began a twelve-month training attachment to the Estates and Development Valuer, Plymouth and two returned after completing similar attachments.
7.62 Two Surveying Assistants (Land) Class II who had passed the intermediate examination of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Land Surveying Section) were sent to the School of Military Survey for a one-year course in advanced surveying.
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