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Garnett and Wolverhampton to the Hong Kong situation.
He was
working towards a system of course work and tasks that would be
backed up by a resources centre providing cassettes, video-tapes,
film strips and a library. The College was being organised on a
matrix system rather than a conventional departmental system so as
to avoid empire-building.
It was Mr. Smith's intention that
successful students should be awarded a B.Ed. He said nothing
about forseeable needs for new staff to be recruited through TETOC
but although at a later stage in my visit I was taken for a brief
tour of the Workshops, unfortunately my programme did not allow
nearly as much time as I would have liked to spend at the Technical
Teachers' College.
(2) Morrison Hill Technical Institute. Here again my programme
unfortunately did not allow of nearly enough time for my discussion
with Mr. Lincoln Lieu, the Acting Principal since Mr. Dan Waters,
the previous principal had been transferred to the Technical
Education Branch about a year ago.
This was on a temporary basis until a new Principal, Mr. Cameron
recently recruited by TETOC, took over in January, 1975, Mr. Lieu
himself being earmarked to head the new Technical Institute at Kwai
Chung opening in September, 1975. In the course of a discussion whic
had to be cut short the following were the main points that arose :
(i) 80% of the teaching is confined to the craft level and
the language of instruction is Chinese. For the remaining
20% (fourth and fifth years technical and commercial courses)
aimed at examinations for a Technician Certificate the language
is English. Heads of Department normally teach three to four
hours a week up to T.4 level.
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