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EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION WILL BE EXTENDED TO THE SENIOR SECONDARY CURRICULUM, OTHER AUDIO-VISUAL SERVICES WILL BE DEVELOPED AND SCHOOL LIBRARIES EXPANDED AND IMPROVED. MUCH „EIGHT IS ATTACHED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF STUDENT GUIDANCE, INCLUDING THE APPOINTMENT OF STUDENT GUIDANCE OFFICERS.
CONSIDERABLE EMPHASIS WILL BE PLACED ON DIVERSIFYING THE CURRICULUM IN FORMS 4-5, IN PARTICULAR TO ENABLE AS MANY STUDENTS AS POSSIBLE TO TAKE A PRACTICAL OR TECHNICAL SUBJECT. A BROADENING OF THE SIXTH FORM CURRICULUM 13 ENVISAGED ALSO.
ATTENTION WILL BE GIVEN ALSO TO THE IMPROVEMENT OF TEACHER- TRAINING. ENTRANCE STANDARDS AT THE COLLEGES OF EDUCATION WILL BE RAISED AND THE LENGTH OF THE BASIC PRE-SERVICE TRAINING COURSE EXTENDED FROM TWO TO THREE YEARS. COURSES FOR UNTRAINED SERVING TEACHERS WOULD BE EXTENDED ALSO. A SYSTEMATIC PROGRAMME WILL BE DEVELOPED FOR IN-SERVICE RETRAINING OF TEACHERS WHO HAVE BEEN SOME YEARS IN THE SCHOOLS.
UNVERSITY GRADUATES WHO ENTER THE TEACHING PROFESSION WILL BE ENCOURAGED TO TAKE A COURSE OF TEACHER TRAINING.
TERTIARY EDUCATION
THE PROPORTION OF STUDENTS IN THE AGE-CROUP PROCEEDING TO COURSES OF TERTIARY EDUCATION PROVIDED OR WHOLLY SUBVENTED BY GOVERNMENT WILL NEARLY DOUBLE OVER THE NEXT DECADE.
THE POLYTECHNIC, WHICH HAS EXPANDED RAPIDLY IN RECENT YEARS, WILL GROW AT THE RATE OF 5% ANNUALLY OVER THE TRIENNIUM 1978-81 AND THEREAFTER STABILISE AT A POPULATION OF 12,000 FULL-TIME AND EQUIVALENT PART-TIME, PROVIDING OF A TOTAL OF ABOUT 29,600 STUDENTS BY ALL MODES OF ATTENDANCE.
THE POLYTECHNIC WILL CONTINUE TO BE THE MAIN PROVIDER OF TECHNICIAN LEVEL COURSES, THOUGH SUCH COURSES ARE ALSO PROVIDED IN TECHNICAL INSTITUTES. WHILE INITIALLY THE BULK OF ORDINARY TECHNICIAN PROGRAMMES MUST BE AT THE POLYTECHNIC, DURING 1980'S INCREASED EMPHASIS MIGHT BE PLACED ON HIGHER TECHNICIAN AND TECHNOLOGIST PROGRAMMES, WITH SOME ORDINARY TECHNICIAN PROGRAMMES BEING TAKEN OVER BY THE TECHNICAL INSTITUTES, PROVIDED THAT SUCH A DEVELOPMENT WERE JUSTIFIED BY INDUSTRIAL MANPOWER REQUIREMENTS.
THE DEVELOPMENT OF CREDIT UNIT PROGRAMMES OF STUDY WILL ENHANCE MOBILITY BETWEEN TECHNICAL INSTITUTES AND THE POLYTECHNIC. THE RANGE OF COURSES PROVIDED AT THE POLYTECHNIC WILL BE BROADENED AS IT ASSUMES RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE TRAINING OF PERSONNEL FOR VARICUS PROFESSIONS RELATED TO THE MEDICAL AND SOCIAL WORK SERVICES.
IT IS PREPARED THAT THE COMBINED STUDENT POPULATION OF THE UNIVERSITIES SHOULD GROW FROM THE TARGET OF 2,850 . THE CURRENT ACADEMIC YEAR TO IN EXCESS OF 12,000 BY THE MID 1980'S, WITH THE PROPORTION OF THE RELEVANT POPULATION WHO RECEIVE A UNIVERSITY EDUCATION BEING NEARLY T., ICE ..HAT IT IS I 1977-73. THE NEW MEDICAL SCHOOL AT THE CINESE UNIVERSITY AND THE DENTAL SCHOOL AT HONG KONG UNIVERSITY REPRESENT MAJOR DEVELOPMENTS DURING THIS PERIOD.
/THE COLLEGES REGISTERED