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Friday, December 14, 1973

VALUE OF SECONDARY TECHNICAL EDUCATION UNDERLINED

The Deputy Director of Education (Technical), Mr. A.J. Kingwell

today stressed the value of secondary technical education at the Speech

Day of the Victoria Technical School.

"If Hong Kong is to meet the needs of this technological age the

public must come to recognise the value to society of trained technicians

and technologists as well as the value of a secondary technical education

as a sure foundation for further studies at university level for a wide

variety of professions and not necessarily a branch of engineering," he

said.

Describing the results of the students of both the lower and upper

6 forms as "excellent", Mr. Kingwell said: "These are the kind of resulte

which will persuade future students to choose a secondary technical education

as their first choice.

"When this begins to happen, there will then be no problem concerning

recognition by the universities and the Polytechnic of the suitability of

graduates from secondary technical schools to take courses to qualify at

professional level."

The Deputy Director said it must be stimulating for secondary technical

students to hear that they have been "in the vanguard of a great social and

educational advance."

By September 1976 lower form students of Victoria Technical School

may be in a new school which is being expressly designed to meet the future

requirements of secondary technical education.

"There is