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TNG RONG

DAILY

INFORMATION SERVICES

INFORMATION BULLETIN

Tuesday, June 6, 1972

TEACHER TRAINING PROGRAMME TO BE EXPANDED

2,000 More Qualified Teachers By 1976

Hong Kong is to expand its existing training programme for non-graduate

teachers to meet the rising demand for trained teachers and to raise the quality

of teaching in schools.

Finance Committee has approved in principle proposals which aim to

produce, by 1976, a further 2,000 qualified teachers. Of this total, 1,500

would be competent to teach in lower secondary forms.

These will be additional to the present programme, which produces

approximately 1,000 trained teachers per year.

An Education Department spokesman said today that the Department was

concerned with improving the quality of teaching in government and aided schools.

At present, he said, there are 1,000 "permitted teachers" in aided

schools who do not meet the requirements of the Education Ordinance to become

registered teachers.

"They are permitted to teach, but are not basically qualified to do

so," he added.

The spokesman said it was necessary to enable these permitted teachers

to become qualified teachers.

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