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filling a number of key posts in the new technical institutes
due to be opened in the next three years at Kwai Chung and Kwun
Tong in September 1975 (possibly May at the former) Cheung Sha
Wan in 1976 and San Po Kung in 1977. When I queried the
inconsistency, Mr. Kingwell indicated that it was impossible to
forecast the number of expatriates that would be needed because of
the unknown availability of local candidates to whom preference
must be given. On the other hand, with so many new institutes
being planned to open up there were opportunities for switching
displaced candidates to other opportunities.
A favourable
factor in what seemed to me a somewhat disconcertaingly fluid
situation was that whereas in the past the former Director of
Education, Mr. Canning, had had an adverse bias against technical
education, Mr. Topley had shown signs of a far more objective
Indeed, during the week in which my visit took place
approach.
I sensed an increasing optimism in the Technical Education Branch
in regard to indications of support which he was giving.
III.
23.
Technical Institutions Visited
My programme included visits to the following:
(1) The Technical Teachers' College. This had previously
been a department of Morrison Hill Technical Institute
but on the appointment of Mr. P.R. Smith in the spring
had been hived off into a separate institution though
with certain shared facilities. As previously
mentioned, the recruitment of Mr. Smith is regarded
as an outstanding success for TETOC and I was impressed- with the energy and enthusiasm with which he was developing the college. Among other things he was adapting the latest
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