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school course in general subjects, woodwork, metalwork and technical drawing; and the Technical College with 283 students attending full-time courses at post-secondary level in building and engineering, radio technology, radio operating, and commercial subjects. Part-time day release classes are provided for housing managers, health inspectors and engineering apprentices. Short full-time courses are offered for radar maintenance technicians, and for ships' officers preparing for Ministry of Transport Certificates of Com- petency. Students are prepared for the external examinations referred to earlier.

The Technical College Evening Department, with 3,504 students, conducts five-year courses in building, electrical and mechanical engineering, naval architecture, and tele- communications, corresponding to the National Certificate Courses in the United Kingdom. Shorter courses are offered in book-keeping and shorthand, field surveying and internal combustion engines. Certain of the building and engineering courses are also taught in the medium of Chinese. Classes in engineering and building, mathematics and technical drawing are provided for apprentices and artisans whose basic education is insufficient for entry into the senior courses.

The Trade Schools of the Salesian Society give a 5-year apprenticeship training in mechanics, electro-mechanics, carpentry, tailoring and printing. Instruction is in Chinese, but English is included in the curriculum. One of the schools (at Aberdeen) is residential.

Technical education is also provided by a number of private commercial and technical schools, but standards of accommodation, equipment and tuition vary greatly. Most of them offer evening classes only, the subjects including civil, mechanical, automobile, electrical and aeronautical engineer- ing, commercial subjects, radio servicing and dressmaking. Commercial subjects are taught in both day and evening classes. The medium of instruction is English or Chinese