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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1981

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PIONEERS CELEBRATE 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF ETV

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PIONEERS OF HONG KONG'S EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION CONVERGED ON THE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT HEADQUARTERS THIS (SATURDAY) MORNING FOR A +FAMILY GET-TOGETHER+ TO MARK ITS 10TH ANNIVERSARY.

HOST AT THE OCCASION WAS THE DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION, MR COLVYN HAYE, WHO IN THE LATE 1960S WAS GIVEN THE FORMIDABLE TAS OF GETTING THE PROJECT OFF THE GROUND.

ALSO PRESENT THE TEA PARTY WERE MR SUN PING-SHU, WHO ASSISTED MR HAYE IN THE EARLY DAYS OF ETV (AND WHO IS NOW RETIRED), MR BRETT PENMAN OF ERIC CUMINE ASSOCIATES, THE ARCHITECT WHO DESIGNED THE ETV CENTRE, MR IAN PHILLIS OF THE PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT WHO HELPED IN BUILDING THE ETV STUDIOS IN BROADCAST DRIVE, AND A NUMBER OF FIRST ETV PRODUCERS AND PRESENTERS.

SIR DAVID TRENCH, THEN GOVERNOR OF HONG KONG, INTRODUCED THE FIRST ETV BROADCAST ON SEPTEMBER 6, 1971, SPEAKING DIRECTLY TO 100 000 CHILDREN,

+SINCE THEN, IT HAS GROWN BY LEAPS AND BOUNDS FROM BLACK- AND-WHITE PRODUCTION TO COLOUR FROM A VIEWING AUDIENCE OF 100 000 PRIMARY 3 PUPILS TO OVER 600 000 PRIMARY 3 TO FORM 3 PUPILS TODAY= AND FROM THE BASIC SUBJECTS OF CHINESE, ENGLISH, MATHEMATICS AND SOCIAL STUDIES TO INCLUDE CAREERS EDUCATION, FAMILY LIFE EDUCATION, JUNIOR AND SENIOR SECONDARY SCIENCE.

+PLANS ARE NOW IN HAND TO INTRODUCE TWO MORE PRIMARY SCHOOL SUBJECTS, SCIENCE AND HEALTH EDUCATION, FROM SEPTEMBER, 1983, TO EXPAND THE EXISTING SCIENCE SERIES TO INCLUDE A WIDER RANGE OF TOPICS, AND TO EXPAND THE CURRENT SOCIAL STUDIES SERIES TO INCLUDE MORE MÓRAL EDUCATION ELEMENTS,+ MR HAYE SAID.

THE DIRECTOR SAID THAT THE SUCCESS OF ETV OVER THE LAST DECADE TENDED TO BE TAKEN VERY MUCH FOR GRANTED. THE SERVICE, HE ADDED HAD BROUGHT QUALITY AND EXCITEMENT INTO OTHERWISE DREARY CLASSROOMS AND HAD EARNED A DESERVED INTERNATIONAL REPUTATION.

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