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Monday, September 3, 1973
TWO NEW TECHNICAL INSTITUTES ON THE WAY
Construction of the Kwai Chung Technical Institute
the first
of seven being planned to expand technical education in Hong Kong will
begin in two months time.
At the same time, work is expected to start on a third institute
at Koung Tong towards the end of the year. Both should be ready at the
start of the 1975/76 academic year.
To be built on a 73,400 square foot site between Kwai Shing and
Kwai Fong estates, the Kwai Chung institute will comprise three different
buildingo a four-storey administrative block; an assembly hall block
with a covered playground, a canteen and minor staff quarters; and a five-
storey teaching block housing 46 classrooms and workshops. They will be
linked together by covered corridors.
When completed in 1975, it will be administered through five
different departments
garmont making, mechanical engineering, electrical
engineering, textiles and business studies.
It will provide 1,300 full-time equivalent places in a wide range
of courses at both elementary and intermediate level. Part-time day release
courses and evening classes will also be run to allow maximum use of its
facilities,
The new institute should be able to take in its first batch of
students at the start of the 1975/76 academic year.
Together