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In line with the 1978 White Paper on the Development of
Senior Secondary and Tertiary Education, this school offers a curriculum
which gives emphasis to practical and technical subjects such as Design
and Technology, Art and Design, Home Economics and Commerce, but at the same
time does not forget the more academic subjects, such as Chemistry, Physics
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and Mathematics, for students who may proceed to A-level and...tuniversity
education.
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Hong Kong's economy is primarily dependent upon export-
oriented manufacturing industries and the support of a wide range of
service industries operating within a free port, free enterprise environment.
These industries require technologists, technicians, craftsmen and skilled
workers at all levels. It is therefore imperative for us to produce the
skilled manpower we require in sufficient numbers to meet the needs of
our industry which is becoming ever more sophisticated.
Whilst the onus rests on the universities, the Polytechnic
and the technical institutes for the training of technologists, technicians
and craftsmen, our secondary technical schools play a vital role in helping
students to acquire the basic technical skills thus opening up for them the
vista of a multitude of different careers in industry,
The completion of the Tang Shiu Kin Victoria Technical School
has made it possible not only to provide better facilities for the existing
technical school, but has also made the premises of the old Victoria Technical
School available for use by the Technical Teachers' College and the
Morrison Hill Technical Institute, thereby providing both these institutions
with much-improved accommodation.
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