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# Chapter VII.
# TRAINING OF TEACHERS, MALE. TRAINING SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES.
1. Trained teachers fall into four groups, viz. (1) those possessing a certificate recognised by the English Board of Education or its equivalent, (2) graduates of the University of Hong Kong, (3) those who have passed through one or other of the Government Vernacular Normal Schools, and (4) those who have satisfactorily attended either English or Vernacular Normal classes in connection with the Evening Institute.
2. The training of English teachers is carried out either in the Education Group of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Hong Kong, or in the Teacher Training classes of the Evening Institute. At the University the training is carried out simultaneously with the degree course, which is a four-year course.
In the first year students take Logic, in the second, Psychology and Practical Teaching; Ethics and the Theory and History of Education are studied during the third and fourth years respectively. At the end of the year 66 students were in training in the Education Group, of whom 19 held Government Education Scholarships.
The Evening Institute provides a three-year course. The classes, now held in the afternoons during school hours, include lectures on English Literature, Speech Training including elementary principles of Phonetics, and Method. Model and criticism lessons are held occasionally in all years and the lecturer in Method visits students in their own schools to observe them at work before their own classes.
3. There are four Government Institutions for training Vernacular School teachers (a) Evening Classes. The students include teachers already teaching in schools, students who wish to become teachers and students who desire education without necessarily wishing to become teachers. The course lasts for three years.
(b) The Day Normal School for men at the Vernacular Normal and Middle School. This is a two-year course.
(c) The Vernacular Normal School for Women. The course lasts three years.
(d) The Vernacular Normal School at Tai Po (New Territories) for men. The course lasts for three years.
4. As a result of the recommendation of the Committee appointed by the Governor in March (mentioned in Part I of this report) it is proposed to open a new Teachers Training College in September 1939. The College will open with two classes; one of Anglo-Chinese and one of Vernacular student teachers.
# Chapter VIII.
# FEMALE EDUCATION.
# GENERAL, PRIMARY, SECONDARY, TRAINING OF TEACHERS.
1. General. The Educational System in force in Hong Kong is not, in general, co-educational. There are, at present, 23 mixed schools and in addition a number of girls' schools admit boys under twelve years of age to their lower classes. At the end of 1938 there were in the Colony 1,243 institutions under the