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MONDAY, JULY 14, 1975
ALL TEACHERS SHOULD HAVE PROFESSIONAL TRAINING
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THE NEED FOR THE PROFESSIONAL TRAINING OF ALL TEACHERS WAS STRESSED BY THE DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION (ADMINISTRATION), MR. CHARLES LOWE, TODAY WHEN HE SPOKE AT THE GRADUATION CEREMONY OF THE GRANTHAM COLLEGE OF EDUCATION AT THE CITY HALL.
HE SAID THERE WAS A FEELING IN SOME QUARTERS THAT WHILE TRAINING WAS ESSENTIAL FOR NON-GRADUATES, IT WAS NOT SO NECESSARY AT THE GRADUATE LEVEL.
+1 AM CONVINCED THAT THIS IS QUITE WRONG AND THE NEED FOR GRADUATE PROFESSIONAL TRAINING IS JUST AS GREAT AS FOR NON- GRADUATES.
+THIS BEING THE CASE, OUR LONG-TERM AIM MUST BE TO GIVE ALL TEACHERS, GRADUATES AND NON-GRADUATES, IN BOTH PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SCHOOLS SOME FORM OF PROFESSIONAL TRAINING,+ MR. LOWE SAID.
WHILE THE MAJOR THRUST SHOULD BE IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR IT' WAS NECESSARY AT THE SAME TIME TO ENSURE THAT PRIVATE SCHOOLS WHICH HAVE +BOUGHT PLACES WERE STAFFED TO AS GREAT AN EXTENT AS POSSIBLE BY PROFESSIONALLY TRAINED TEACHERS.
HE SAID, IT WOULD BE QUITE WRONG TO COUNT THESE PLACES AS BEING IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR WITHOUT RECOGNISING OUR RESPON- SIBILITY FOR TRAINING THE TEACHERS.+
THE DEPUTY DIRECTOR EMPHASIZED THE NEED FOR CLOSE LIAISON BETWEEN THE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT AND THE UNIVERSITIES' DEPARTMENTS OF EDUCATION AS REGARDS THE TRAINING OF GRADUATE TEACHERS AND EDUCATIONAL PLANNING.
+THIS LIAISON, I AM GLAD TO SAY, IS IMPROVING AND IS ALREADY STARTING TO BRING FRUITFUL RESULTS, BUT MUCH STILL NEEDS TO BE DONE, PARTICULARLY IN THE WIDER SPHERE OF EDUCATION POLICY. EDUCATION FROM KINDERGARTEN TO UNIVERSITY IS ONE AND INDIVISIBLE,+ MR. LOWE POINTED OUT.
HE PAID TRIBUTE TO THE PRINCIPAL OF GRANTHAM, MRS. MAGDALEN CHOW, AND DESCRIBED HER AS +EXPERIENCED, UNDERSTANDING AND CAPABLE+.
MR. LOWE ALSO COMMENDED THE STAFF OF THE COLLEGE, WHO, HE SAID, WERE ALL WORKING TO MAINTAIN THE LONG-STANDING REPUTATION FOR PRODUCING CAPABLE, DEDICATED TEACHERS.
CONGRATULATING THE STUDENTS, MR. LOWE SAID HE WAS VERY PLEASED TO HEAR OF THEIR OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES AND PARTICULARLY THEIR SUCCESS IN THE HONG KONG FEDERATION OF STUDENTS SPORTS AND GAMES.
/HE ALSO
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