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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1975

MARKETING TECHNICAL EDUCATION

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PUPILS IN HONG KONG ARE NOW AWARE OF THE RELEVANCE OF TECHNICAL EDUCATION TO THE DEMANDS OF THE MODERN WORLD, FR. ANDREW KINGWELL, DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION (TECHNICAL), SAID TODAY.

HE WAS SPEAKING AT THE OPENING OF AN EXHIBITION ON 'PERSPECTIVE VIEWS ON TECHNICAL EDUCATION AND TECHNICAL SCHOOLS' AT THE KOWLOON TECHNICAL SCHOOL.

THE EXHIBITION, ORGANISED BY THE PUPILS OF GOVERNMENT SECONDARY TECHNICAL SCHOOLS, WILL LAST THREE DAYS. THE EXHIBITION WILL MOVE TO THE VICTORIA TĚCHRIJCAL SCHOOL ON HONG KONG ISLAND WHERE IT WILL BE HELD BETWEEN SEPTEMBER 13 AND 15.

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IN THANKING THE ORGANISERS, MR. KINGWELL SAID THAT THROUGH THIS EXHIBITION, THE PUPILS WERE ATTEMPTING TO SELL TECHNICAL EDUCATION TO THE PUBLIC.

HE REITERATED THAT FOR HONG KONG TO SURVIVE IN A HIGHLY COMPETITIVE AND COMPLEX WORLD IT MUST HAVE A SUPPLY OF INTELLECTUAL AND TECHNICAL ABILITY TO SATISFY THE DEMANDS OF THAT WORLD.

+EQUALLY IMPORTANT IS THE CONCEPT THAT EACH PUPIL SHOULD ENJOY AN EDUCATION THAT WILL ENABLE HIM TO DEVELOP HIS FULL POTENTIAL AND UNDERSTAND THE CHANGES IN TECHNOLOGY WHICH OCCUR SO RAPIDLY IN THIS MODERN WORLD.+

ON THE PROBLEM OF MARKETING TECHNICAL EDUCATION, AND THIS WAS NOT CONFINED SOLELY TO HONG KONG, FR. KINGWELL SAID IT WAS OBVIOUS FROM THE EXHIBITION THAT THE PUPILS UNDERSTOOD THE DIFFICULTIES OF PERSUADING THE MORE ABLE STUDENTS THAT A TECHNICAL EDUCATION WAS VORTHUMILE.

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HE STRESSED THE NEED TO GET RID OF RESISTANCE TO TECHNICAL EDUCATION.

+THIS RESISTANCE MUST AND WILL BE OVERCOME, HOWEVER, BECAUSE HONG KONG WHICH IS NOW EXPERIENCING ITS OWN INDÚSTRIAL REVOLUTION MUST COME TO TERMS WITH THE NEED FOR CHANGE,+ MR. KINGWELL SAID.

PRACTICAL WORK IN SCHOOLS WAS SADLY NEGLECTED BEFORE BUT THIS ACTIVITY COULD NO LONGER DE DISREGARDED AND MANY ADVANCES WERE BEING MADE, FOR EXAMPLE, HE SAID THAT THIS MONTH TWO NEW TECHNICAL INSTITUTES, ONE AT KUUN TONG AND THE OTHER AT KWAI CHUNG, WERE DEING OPENED.

THE COTTON SPINNERS' ASSOCIATION PREVOCATIONAL SCHOOL WAS ALSO OPENING THIS MONTH. EARLIER THIS YEAR THE CHURCH OF CHRIST IN CHINA ROTARY AND CARITAS ST. PAUL PREVOCATIONAL SCHOOLS VERE OFFICIALLY OPENED.

+TECHNICAL EDUCATION IS NOW BEING REGARDED BY THE PUBLIC AND INDUSTRY AS MORE AND MORE RELEVANT IN A SOCIETY WHICH GIVES SO MANY OF ITS RESOURCES TO TECHNOLOGY,+ MR. KINGWELL SAID. “