SATURDAY, JUNE 13,
JUNE 13, 1987
COMPUTER LITERACY COURSE IN JUNIOR SECONDARY FORMS
THE FINANCE COMMITTEE
HAS APPROVED
FUNDS
FOR
70
SECONDARY
A
SCHOOLS IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR TO OFFER COMPUTER LITERACY STUDIES AS
FORMS, THE SECONDARY NEW SUBJECT IN JUNIOR
MR Y.T. LI SAID TODAY (SATURDAY).
GENERAL ANNUAL
DIRECTOR
MEETING
OF EDUCATION
OF
THE
HONG KONG ENCOURAGING ΤΟ THIS SUBJECT IN
THE SPEAKING AT ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTER EDUCATION, MR LJ SAID IT WAS NOTE THAT 68 SECONDARY SCHOOLS HAD APPLIED TO OFFER SEPTEMBER WITH ANOTHER 52 SCHOOLS LAUNCHING THE SUBJECT IN 1988.
SAID TEACHERS SHOULD ACHIEVE IN TEACHING THE SUBJECT, MR LI
IN HAND ING THE OBJECTIVE TO HELP STUDENTS BUILD UP THEIR CONFIDENCE
OF UNDERSTANDING
INFLUENCE COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY AS WELL COMPUTER.
THEY
SHOULD
IN AS
ALSO MAKE
STUDENTS
THE
AWARE OF THE
EMPLOYMENT EQUIP STUDENTS ΤΟ NEET THE
OPPORTUNITIES OFFERED BY THE COMPUTER INDUSTRY AND TO
AND ATTITUDE WITH APPROPROLATE KNOWLEDGE, CHALLENGE OF "COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY", HE ADDED.
TECHNOLOGY
STUDIES IN SCHOOLS, PUBLIC SECTOR SCHOOLS
IN REVIEWING THE DEVELOPMENT OF COMPUTER
ENCOURAGE
MR LI SAID A START WAS MADE TO OFFER COMPUTER STUDIES IN FORMS 4 AND 5 IN 1982.
ΤΟ
CENT OF THE SECONDARY BY SEPTEMBER THIS YEAR, 294 OR 90 PER SCHOOLS IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR WOULD OFFER COMPUTER COURSES.
WITH
SET
PROMOTE
THE GOVERNMENT HAD ALLOCATED $30 MILLION TO EQUIP SCHOOLS THE NECESSARY COMPUTER EQUIPMENT. A COMPUTER EDUCATION CENTRE WAS UP WITH A $4.5 MILLION ALLOCATION FROM THE MACLEHOSE FUNDS TO TEACHERS' AWARENESS IN COMPUTER EDUCATION.
THAT THE EDUCATION
WAS
WOULD DEPARTMENT MR LI ALSO PLEDGED
BEING CONTINUE TO PROMOTE COMPUTER EDUCATION IN SCHOOLS. A STUDY
IN RELEVANT SCHOOLS THE
OF MICRO-COMPUTER MADE TO INCLUDE
COMPUTER STUDIES SUBJECTS AND CONSIDERATION WAS ALSO GIVEN TO EXTEND TO FORMS 6 AND 7.
TOPIC
OF THE DEPARTMENT IN THE MEANTIME, THE INSPECTORATE DIVISION
FOR TEACHERS TO COINCIDE WAS ACTIVELY PLANNING IN-SERVICF TRAINING WITH THE LAUNCHING OF THE COMPUTER LITERACY STUDIES.
WITH
OTHER
DEPARTMENTS AND UNIVERSITY OF
THE DEPARTMENT, IN COLLABORATION THE CENTRE OF COMPUTER STUDIES AND APPLICATIONS OF THE
POSSIBILITY ALSO LOOKING HONG HỌNG, WAS
THE INTO
OF PRODUCING
SOFTWARE FOR USE IN TEACHING THE NEW SUBJECT IN SEPTEMBER.
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