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Tuesday, June 6, 1972

Under the expansion programme, they are to become qualified teachers

at the rate of about 200 a year.

Since their training takes two years, this would mean that 600

"permitted teachers" could qualify by 1976 and the remainder by 1978.

The spokesman said: "The aim is that any additional teachers required

in primary schools in the public sector should be qualified and not permitted

teachers."

The three Colleges of Education are capable of very limited expansion.

To provide for the intake of 2,000 students, accommodation will have to be

found for the expansion of part-time courses.

To this end, the old Northcote College of Education buildings at

Bonham Road, which have been vacated by the United College of The Chinese

University of Hong Kong, should now revert to their original role.

Additional accommodation will be available in Kowloon when Sir Robert

Black College moves from its existing premises at Hung Hom to permanent new

accommodation at Piper's Hill.

"These buildings should provide sufficient accommodation," the spokesman

said, "but if an inadequate number of unqualified teachers offer themselves for

in-service training, it will be necessary to consider an expansion of full-time

training courses."

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