A.C.E.C. 28/33.
ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION IN THE COLONIES.
JUNIOR TECHNICAL SCHOOL, HONG KONG.
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1.
At the 38th Meeting of the Advisory Committee
it was reported that the Government of Hong Kong, in
accordance with the advice of a local Committee on
Technical Education, had decided to establish a
Junior Technical School and to develop evening
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classes in connection with that School.
contemplated was a system of pre-apprenticeship
education, followed by apprenticeship, for which
practical training in the work would be supplemented
by technical and other education in evening classes,
the ultimate aim being the local production of
supervisors and foremen in constructive trades.
As the first Principal of this School the Board of
Education recommended Mr. G. White, who took his
degree in Engineering at Glasgow University, and had
for some time been acting as head of the Civil and
Mechanical Engineering Department in the Plymouth and
Devonport Technical College. Mr. White joined the
post at the beginning of December, 1932. Copies of
his first report on the opening of the School and
plans for its development are circulated herewith for
the information of members.
2. It will be observed from the report that
Mr. White is bearing in mind the need for close
contact with local employers and the industrial world.
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