6.3.8. Whilst on this matter of administration and organisation, the writer would like to draw attention to the need for a better thought out organisation for evening classes. The numbers attending in the evening are large and the part-time staffing requirements are therefore also on the high side so that a more positive approach is required to the arrangements. The need will be all the more important when the institute has been established and probably calls for a specific post of evening class organiser in the Department of Education. He would then be concerned with the logistics of the problem accommodation, part-time teachers salaries, registers and the like, the College and Institute supplying the expertise and overlooking the teaching.
6.4. Buildings and Equipment
6.4.1.
There is need for accommodation and equipment for the following:- (1) Physical Metallurgy and Metallography
(for Engineering Metallurgy)
(2) Hydraulics for Higher Diploma work
(3) Concrete testing for Higher Diploma work
(4) Non-destructive testing for Higher Diploma work
(5) Business Machines for Higher Diploma work
(6) When the need arises, a digital computer for training purposes. 6.4.2. There is also need to increase the library in steps to a first target of 15,000 volumes, then 20,000 and finally 30,000. It is suggested that the College applies to the Ministry for a grant towards management books.
6.4.3. It is suggested that the present system whereby equipment requirements for the College are referred to Officers in Government departments for comment and approval be discontinued. If advice of this kind is required then it should be sought from specialists in the field rather than from amateurs since so much of technical college equipment today is designed for the purpose and is often far removed from its commercial counter-parts. This Ministry will gladly help when needed.
6.5. Proposed Board of Governors
6.5.1. Within the national arrangements for technical education it is essential for the Hong Kong College of Technology to develop an individuality of its own to suit the particular circumstances of its environment and the interests and activities of its staff. Indeed it has already begun to do this and has effected a close relationship with industry and an active group of advisory committees; its Principal and senior staff play an important role in technical education and industrial training matters and it has a virile and growing student body. It has other links too of a social and communal character, and indeed the student extra-curricular activities are particularly well organised and vigorous. fact is an outward looking institution alive with purposeful activity.
The College in
6.5.2. However, the scope of its activities and the potential of the staff is limited by its close association with Government. is circumscribed by service rules and regulations, and the versatility and Inevitably its staff virility of the Colleges arrangements are limited. occasioned by the requirement that salary scales for all civil servants
Staffing problems are must be common and by the need to consult the Public Service Commission and the Establishment Secretary's Office, whose members are bound to be biased towards the service requirement rather than the teaching requirement.
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