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To enhance the quality of teaching, the graduate/non-graduate teacher ratio in prevocational schools should be improved from the present 1:1 to 7:3, bringing the provision in line with that of secondary grammar and technical schools.
Prevocational and secondary technical schools should be allowed to remove their specific reference from their names if they so wish.
The working group was set up last year under the chairmanship of a Senior Assistant Director of Education, Mr S M Tsui, to comprehensively review the two types of education.
Mr Tsui said that the major areas covered by the review were the roles of prevocational and secondary technical schools, their technical curricula, physical facilities and teaching furniture and equipment, training and retraining of teachers, graduate/non-graduate teacher ratio in prevocational schools and interface between secondary schools and the Vocational Training Council.
During the review, formal and informal contacts were made with the relevant educational bodies, and visits were paid to prevocational and secondary technical schools and institutes under the Vocational Training Council. In addition, two public forums were held and written submissions were received from the public.
"It is hoped that the recommendations of the working group will provide a useful basis for the Government to map out the longer-term development of technical education in schools in the context of Hong Kong's overall manpower planning and training. We would welcome any views from the public on the report," Mr Tsui said.
Copies of the report are available from the Education Department's Schools Division, 14/F, Wu Chung House, 213 Queen's Road East, Wan Chai, Hong Kong; Yau Tsim District Education Office, 7/F, Kowloon Government Offices, 405 Nathan Road, Kowloon; and Sha Tin District Education Office, 3/F, Citylink Plaza, 1 Shatin Station Circuit, Sha Tin, New Territories.
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