THURSDAY, JULY 8, 1982
THE ANNUAL TUITION FEES PAID BY FULL-TIME TECHNICIAN AND CRAFT STUDENTS WERE $800 AND $150 RESPECTIVELY ALTHOUGH THEIR REAL OPERATIONAL COSTS WERE ESTIMATED AT $12 000 PER TECHNICIAN PLACE AD *10 000 PER CRAFT PLACE EACH YEAR.
THE IVE INSTITUTES, WITH FIVE DEPARTMENTS EACH, COVER A TOTAL OF 12 DISCIPLINES.
DISCIPLINES SUCH AS ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING WHICH ARE FOUND IN MOT INDUSTRIES AND FOR WHICH THERE IS A HEAVY DEMAND FOR KILLED MANPOWER ARE OFFERED IN MOST OF THE INSTITUTES. SPECIALISED SUBJECTS SUCH AS PRINTING, MARINE AND FABRICATION, AND OPTICAL TECHNOLOGY ARE AVAILABLE AT ONLY ONE INSTITUTE.
THE THREE MOST POPULAR DEPARTMENTS IN THE 1981-82 ACADEMIC YEAR, ACCORDING TO THE PERCENTAGE OF TOTAL STUDENT ENROLMENT, WERE MECHANICAL ENGINEERING (25 PER CENT), ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING (18 PER CENT) AND COMMERCIAL STUDIES (17 PER CENT).
THE OTHER NINE DEPARTMENTS ARE CLOTHING, CONSTRUCTION, DESIGN, HOTEL-KEEPING AND TOURISM STUDIES, INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY, MARINE AND FABRICATION, PRINTING, TEXTILE AND GENERAL STUDIES.
THE INSTITUTES MAINTAIN CLOSE LINKS WITH THE INDUSTRIAL, COMMERCIAL AND SERVICE SECTORS OF THE BUSINESS WORLD, AS WELL AS WITH VARIOUS TRAINING AND PROFESSIONAL BODIES IN AND OUTSIDE OF THE GOVERNMENT, TO ENSURE THAT COURSES ARE RUN TO MEET THE CURRENT AND FORESEEABLE REQUIREMENTS.
MOST FULL-TIME TECHNICIAN PROGRAMMES ARE FOR TWO YEARS, AND NORMALLY EXTEND OVER A STUDY PERIOD OF 36 WEEKS A YEAR. PART-TIME TECHNICIAN COURSES SPREAD OVER FOUR YEARS FOR DAY RELEASE STUDENTS AND OVER FIVE TO SIX YEARS FOR EVENING STUDENTS.
A FULL-TIME BASIC CRAFT PROGRAMME LASTS FOR ONE YEAR. PART-TIME CRAFT COURSES, DESIGNED FOR APPRENTICES, LAST FOR THREE YEARS.
LAST YEAR, THERE WERE ABOUT 16 800 QUALIFIED APPLICANTS FOR FULL-TIME TECHNICIAN LEVEL COURSES AND 15 600 FOR CRAFT LEVEL COURSES.
ON AVERAGE, THE QUALIFIED APPLICANT-TO-PLACE RATIO WAS 10 TO 1 FOR TECHNICIAN LEVEL COURSES AND 12.6 TO 1 FOR CRAFT LEVEL COURSES. THE OVERALL RATIO FOR EVENING COURSES WAS 4 TO 1.
MR M.C. MORGAN, THE DIRECTOR OF THE NEWLY-ESTABLISHED TECHNICAL EDUCATION AND INDUSTRIAL TRAINING DEPARTMENT (TEITD), CAUTIONED HOWEVER THAT THIS APPARENT WIDE APPLICANT-TO-PLACE RATIO MUST BE VIEWED IN THE LIGHT OF MANY WHO APPLIED SIMULTANEOUSLY TO ALL THE INSTITUTES, THE POLYTECHNIC, TRAINING CENTRES AND OTHER INSTITUTIONS JUST TO ENSURE THEY HAVE SOMETHING TO FALL BACK ON IN CASE THE IR FIRST-CHOICE APPLICATION WAS NOT ACCEPTED+.
HE ADDED, WE ARE CONSCIOUS OF THE CAPITAL INVESTMENT IN THESE FIVE TECHNICAL INSTITUTES AND WE ARE EXPLORING WAYS TO MAXIMISE THEIR UTILISATION.
+IT IS POSSITLE THAT WE MAY BE ABLE TO MAKE USE OF SCME OF THE FACILITIES DURING THE NORMAL SCHOOL VACATION PERIOD BY ARRANGING, WHERE PUSSILLE
POSSIBLE, FOR MAINTENANCE OF PLANT AND EQUIPMENT TO BE E DEN. THT IN THE EVENING+.
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