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Wednesday, March 20, 1974

TEACHER EDUCATION ADVISER

Completes Intensive Study

Mr. Charles Griffiths, a teacher education adviser who arrived

in Hong Kong on February 7 at the invitation of the Education Department

to advise on the professional training of teachers, will leave for

London tomorrow,

During his six-week visit, Mr. Griffiths carried out an intensivo

grass roots study of teacher education in the colleges of education, the

Assistant Director of Education, Mr. William Fisher-Short said today.

Mr. Griffiths has also visited the two universities, the

Polytechnic and the Morrison Hill Technical Institute.

"Ho will advise on the internal organisation of, and courses conducted

by, the three colleges of education and will, in due course, report on

his views on the general development of teacher training to meet the

demands of future educational expansion," said Mr. Fisher-Short.

During the course of his visit Mr. Griffiths, who is the Doputy

Principal of the Sidney Webb College in London, has in addition established

wide contact with many sectors of the education system.

He has spent time in primary and secondary schools of all types,

had ir depth discussions with administrators and inspectors of schools, and has

studied the contribution made to education by various statutory and private

organisations.

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