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Wednesday, July 4, 1973

INTEGRATED SCIENCE COURSE FOR TEACHERS

Four Scottish tutors with considerable experience in the teaching

of Integrated Science have arrived in Hong Kong.

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They will lecture to more than 50 science teachers, science

lectúrèrs and examination science specialists at the summer course on

Intergrated Science for lower secondary forms which opens at the Hong

Kong International School tomorrow (Thursday) morning.

The tutors are Mr. A.W. Jeffrey and Mr. S.T.S. Skillen, both of

whom are Inspectors in the Scottish Education Department, Mr. J. Hughes,

Director, Scottish Curriculum Development Centre for Science, Mathematics and

Technical Subjects, and Mr. I. Robertson, Principal Lecturer in Chemistry

at Jordan Hill College of Education, Scotland.

The course, organised by the Education Department, is based on

curricula used in Scotland and adopted by other countries in the world.

The course will train teachers in improved techniques and, in particular,

treata science as one integrated subject, thus removing artificial divisions

introduced by regarding science as a collection of separate subjects.

Teachers attending the course will teach Integrated Science next

September in Form 1 in 20 secondary schools taking part in the pilot scheme.

The course opening tomorrow will last until July 26. It will

be opened by Mr. A.G. Brown, Assistant Director of Education (Chief Inspector

of Schools).

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