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URDAY, JULY 2, 1992

HONG EDUCATION,

KONG EDUCATION AND SIR

OF COLLEGE GRANTHAM THE COLLEGES ARE TECHNICAL TEACHERS' COLLEGE, NORTHCOTE COLLEGE OF ROBERT BLACK COLLEGE OF EDUCATION.

AN EXAMPLE, MR LAW CITING NORTHCOTE COLLEGE OF EDUCATION AS

REFRESHER SAID THE COLLEGE HAD CHANGED THE MODE OF ATTENDANCE OF THE TRAINING COURSE TO ONE IN WHICH SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS ATTENDED 19 ALTERNATE SATURDAY MORNING SESSIONS AND ONE WEEKDAY AFTERNOON EACH WEEK FOR 37 WEEKS.

SESSION

SCHEDULE BUT

OF ATTACHMENT TO VOCATIONAL THE TEACHING OF SPECIALISED

THE TECHNICAL TEACHERS' COLLEGE ADOPTED THE SAME

DAYS THE PROGRAMME ALSO INCLUDED FOUR TRAINING CENTRES FOR WIDER EXPOSURE TO SUBJECTS.

GRADING OF BEACH WATER QUALITY

(THURSDAY)

BATHING

THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION DEPARTMENT (EPD) TODAY ANNOUNCED GRADES ON THE BACTERIOLOGICAL WATER QUALITY OF ALL BEACHES IN HONG KONG.

THE PURPOSE OF THE GRADING SYSTEM IS TO INFORM SWIMMERS AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC ABOUT THE STATE OF BACTERIOLOGICAL POLLUTION AT VARIOUS BEACHES.

AN EPD

SAIDTHEGRADING SPOKESMAN

WOULDBE

ANNOUNCED BIWEEKLY THE FREQUENCY AT WHICH

DURING THE BATHING SEASON, TO COINCIDE WITH BEACH WATERS ARE USUALLY SAMPLED.

THE GRADING IS BASED ON THE MOST RECENT E.COLI DATA OBTAINED BY THE EPD IN ITS ROUTINE MONITORING PROGRAMME.

AS WITH LAST YEAR, THE GRADING ALSO INCLUDES AN ESTIMATE OF THE A RISK OF SUFFERING SOME MINOR SKIN OR GASTROINTESTINAL COMPLAINTS AS RESULT OF SWIMMING AT A BEACH THAT HAS SOME DEGREE OF POLLUTION.

BODY LARGE

OF STATISTICAL THE ESTIMATE IS BASED ON A VERY INFORMATION GATHERED IN HONG KONG IN RECENT BATHING SEASONS.

THE GRADING OF SOME BEACHES MAY VARY DURING THE SUMMER.

IN THE BACTERIOLOGICAL THIS REPRESENTS A NATURAL FLUCTUATION QUALITY OF BATHING WATERS IN MOST CASES, AS RAIN AND TIDES BRING OR LESS POLLUTION TO THE BEACHES.

HOWEVER,

MORE

THE WATER

BEST

THE GRADES GIVE A GOOD GENERAL PICTURE OF QUALITY AT BATHING BEACHES AT THE TIME OF REPORTING AND FORM THE AVAILABLE FORECAST FOR THE IMMEDIATE FUTURE.