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Monday, September 3, 1973

TWO NEW TECHNICAL INSTITUTES ON THE WAY

Construction of the Kwai Chung Technical Institute

the first

of seven being planned to expand technical education in Hong Kong will

begin in two months time.

At the same time, work is expected to start on a third institute

at Koung Tong towards the end of the year. Both should be ready at the

start of the 1975/76 academic year.

To be built on a 73,400 square foot site between Kwai Shing and

Kwai Fong estates, the Kwai Chung institute will comprise three different

buildingo a four-storey administrative block; an assembly hall block

with a covered playground, a canteen and minor staff quarters; and a five-

storey teaching block housing 46 classrooms and workshops. They will be

linked together by covered corridors.

When completed in 1975, it will be administered through five

different departments

garmont making, mechanical engineering, electrical

engineering, textiles and business studies.

It will provide 1,300 full-time equivalent places in a wide range

of courses at both elementary and intermediate level. Part-time day release

courses and evening classes will also be run to allow maximum use of its

facilities,

The new institute should be able to take in its first batch of

students at the start of the 1975/76 academic year.

Together