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Friday, February 16, 1973
MORE TEACHER TRAINING FACILITIES TO BE PROVIDED
Old Northcote College Building To Get Face Lift
The Old Northcote Teacher Training College building centrally sited at Bonham Road is to be renovated to provide more teacher training
facilitics.
The building had been occupied previously by the United College
of The Chinese University.
After renovation, it will be used by the Northcote College of
Education to run a number of courses for in-service secondary school teachers.
These courses are designed to equip them as qualified teachers.
This is in line with the new post primary education policy which aims at providing, with Government assistance, three more years of aided
education.
A spokesman for the Education Department said: "In May last year the Finance Committee approved an expansion of the existing teacher education programme designed to provide 2,000 additional non-graduate qualified
teachers by September 1976 to meet the urgent demand for qualified secondary
school teachers.
"The demand is due mainly to the increase in secondary school places
as a result of the implementation of the new post primary education policy,"
he said.
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