70.
course,
This year,
the first students graduated from a new
Advanced for davisod
Lovel two-year training eramination entrant8 to the Colleges of Education, and nozt year studenta who entered the new three-year course for the first time will also graduato. These now programmes extend the range of courses and. subjects and will produce better qualifiod
courses have been In-service
redesigned
teachers.
and the
and
lengthened
Colleges have opened new courbe5 tor kindergarten and special education training.
71.
Aa
ia
bring
matters stand, these developments will beneficial effects, chiefly to the aided sector of education. A study is now being made of how it might be possible to improve "bought" places in private
places in private secondary schools, having regard to our plans for building the new secondary schools which will enable us to phase out bought places in the longer
Fun.
72.
The
(iii) Technical education
Vocational Training Council
established
in
February this year. The Council plans to double the capacity of the Technical Institutes before the end of the decade by extending existing technical institutep and building new onos. This will enable the institutes to take on technician Isvel courses transferred from the Hong Kong Polytechnic, as well as
technician and new
craft
which courses,
to
establish
meet
two
directly the needs of industry and commerce. In addition, new industrial training complexes are planned for completion in 1985. These will have an' annual capacity of nearly 9,000 trainees at craft and operative level.
73.
(iv) Tertiary education
The growth rate of the student population of the two Universities will be raised to meet Hong Kong's professional manpower needs and students' aspirations, The present growth
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