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Wednesday, March 20, 1974
TEACHER EDUCATION ADVISER
Completes Intensive Study
Mr. Charles Griffiths, a teacher education adviser who arrived
in Hong Kong on February 7 at the invitation of the Education Department
to advise on the professional training of teachers, will leave for
London tomorrow,
During his six-week visit, Mr. Griffiths carried out an intensivo
grass roots study of teacher education in the colleges of education, the
Assistant Director of Education, Mr. William Fisher-Short said today.
Mr. Griffiths has also visited the two universities, the
Polytechnic and the Morrison Hill Technical Institute.
"Ho will advise on the internal organisation of, and courses conducted
by, the three colleges of education and will, in due course, report on
his views on the general development of teacher training to meet the
demands of future educational expansion," said Mr. Fisher-Short.
During the course of his visit Mr. Griffiths, who is the Doputy
Principal of the Sidney Webb College in London, has in addition established
wide contact with many sectors of the education system.
He has spent time in primary and secondary schools of all types,
had ir depth discussions with administrators and inspectors of schools, and has
studied the contribution made to education by various statutory and private
organisations.
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