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Annexe III.
REPORT BY THE PRINCIPAL, TRADE & TECHNICAL SCHOOLS.
Junior Technical School.
(1) Students on completion of their course continue to be accepted for apprenticeship by local engineering firms on very favourable terms.
(2) Thirty-two students left with certificates in 1987.
these seventeen are continuing their education by at- tendance at Evening Institute Classes.
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(3) The Sports Field was badly damaged by the typhoon of September, but the damage has now been largely repaired.
(4) For the first time it was possible to run a practical course of instruction in which students prepared draw- ings, made the patterns, and produced lead castings of the objects drawn.
(5) Owing to the restriction imposed by very small class rooms it is not possible to recruit sufficient entrants in the lowest classes to ensure that normal wastage does not render the top classes of the School uneconomically small. This defect cannot be remedied in the present building.
(6) Attendance Figures were as follows.
Maxiinum enrolment,
Average Attendance, 1937-1938,
Average Attendance, 1936-1937, Decrease in enrolment over 1936-1937,
Trade School.
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110.28 111.36
(1) The initial equipment purchased in 1936 was installed during the year. The difficulty of obtaining delivery of equipment from home has delayed progress considerably. (2) The second instalment of equipment was ordered during
1937.
(3) The Departament of Wireless Telegraphy opened in February with 20 students, 10 of whom qualified for the 2nd Class Wireless Operators (Restricted) Certificate. (4) The Department of Building opened in March with 30 students; of these 24 completed the year and 17 qualified for year II of the course.
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(5) The Department of Engineering opened a course in
Motor Car Engineering in November with 24 students.
(6) Applications for entry to all courses far exceeded the
accommodation available.
(7) The medium of instruction in Wireless Telegraphy and Building is English, students being recruited from Class III or above, practically all coming from Schools in the Colony.
(8) Owing to the lack of suitably trained Chinese Instruc- tors, it was also necessary to make a knowledge of English a condition of entry to the Motor Car Course.
(9) Attendance Figures for the various departments were as
follows:-
Department of Wireless Telegraphy
Maximum Enrolment
20
(Removed as unlikely to qualify after
2 months)
8
Average Enrolment
15.30
14.38
Average Attendance
Department of Building
Maximum Enrolment Average Enrolment Average Attendance
Department of Engineering
Maximum Enrolment Average Enrolment Average Attendance
30
26.11
25.20
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19.95
Ġ. WHITE,
Principal,
Trade and Technical Schools.
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