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This year,
the first students graduated from a new
for davisod
Advanced Lovel COUIJË, training two-year examination entrants to the Colleges of Education, and next year students who entered the new three-year course for the first time will also graduate. These new programmes extend the range of courses and. subjects and will produce better qualified
redesigned teachers. In-service courses have been lengthened and the Colleges have opened kindergarten and special education training.
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and
new COUI368 tor
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Ae matters
stand, these developments
will
bring
beneficial effects, chiefly to the aided sector of education. might be possible to might A study is now being made of how it improve "bought" places in private secondary schools, having regard to our plans
our plans for building the
building the new secondary schools which will enable us to phase out bought places in the longer
run.
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(iii) Technical education
in
The Vocational Training. Council was established February this year. The Council plans to double the capacity of the Technical Institutes before the end of the decade by extending existing technical institutes and building new ones. This will enable the institutes to take on technician level courses transferred from the Hong Kong Polytechnic, as well as
craft technician and
which courses, to establish
neet
In addition, two directly the needs of industry and commerce. 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.
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new
(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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