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Tuesday, October 6, 1970

9,000 PUPILS AT MORRISON HILL

Training Of Craftsmen For Industry

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Nine thousand pupils are making use of modern educational facilities

at the now Morrison Hill Tochnical Institute 578 full-time pupils,

485 on part-time day-roloase coursos, 71 on block-roloase courses, and

7,500 on part-time ovoning courses.

Sovoral short courses are to be opened soon, and when the instituto

is fully dovolopod, thoro will be room for 1,300 full-tino pupils, or an

equivalent number for block-roloase or part-time day-rolcaso coursos.

Tho instituto's main function is to train craftsmon and tochnicians

for industry, which moans all coursos aro vocational.

Coursos and subjects offorod aro on olomontary and intormodiato

lovols, and training is undortakon of tochnical teachers and workshop

instructors.

A spokesman for the instituto said today the lattor was an important

function, sinco tho oxpansion of technical education in Hong Kong depended upon

tho availability of trained teachers.

Instituto staff servo on various functional and industrial sub-

committeos of tho Industrial Training Advisory Committoo, and so make sure

syllabusos aro proparod aftor consultation with industrial roprosentativos

with their fingors on Hong Kong's actual noods.

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