first year of the new University, fifteen students graduated as Bachelors of Social Science with major in social work. Social work minor courses are at present offered by the United and New Asia Colleges, the two other constituent colleges of the Chinese University.
100. Field work instruction is an integral and important part of social work training. Since qualified supervisors for the field work train- ing of students are rare, six special field work units, three for each Univer- sity, have been set up within suitable voluntary agencies, each providing practical training under the supervision of a fully qualified social worker. The money to support these arrangements was allocated, as before, from the Social Work Training Fund (see paragraph 107 below).
101. The Extra-Mural Department of the University of Hong Kong continued to offer background courses and during the year many officers of the Department took courses in such subjects as Human Relations, Social Psychology, Library Technique and Development, Special Educa- tion and Special Welfare Services.
102. The Training Unit of the Social Welfare Department continued its work of giving part-time in-service training to staff already employed in voluntary agencies and Government departments, including staff engaged in the day care of young children; the courses generally last five months, participants being released from work for a full week each month.
103. The UNICEF funds which financed the staff of the Unit for its first two years came to an end in August, and as the results demonstrated a continued demand and need for such training in the community the Government approved the Unit's permanent establishment as a part of the Department.
104. The response from voluntary agencies to the efforts of the Train- ing Unit remained very encouraging. Agency administrators continued their support of the various in-service training courses by attending a series of directors' meetings with the Training Unit; by sending their own staff for training; and by frank discussion at the follow-up visits made by Training Officers in November in an effort to evaluate the programme. The information thus gained revealed that many important areas of training had not yet been touched, and were unlikely to be touched unless the Training Unit grows in size.
105. During the year the training courses for nursery workers were virtually doubled as a result of the rapidly increasing number of nurseries
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