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EDUCATION

production, structural electrical and telecommunications engineer- ing, naval architecture, management studies, housing management, building construction, builders' quantities, field surveying, plumb- ing, textiles spinning and weaving, industrial chemistry, laboratory technician's work, dental mechanics, refrigeration, accountancy, book-keeping and shorthand. A two-year part-time course for training technical teachers was started in 1961 and the certificate in management studies has been extended to a two-year course. A productivity centre forms part of the mechanical/production engineering department of the college, and provides short courses in such subjects as materials handling, plant layout, work study and quality control.

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A donation of US$250,000 (approximately HK$1,400,000) was received from the American Government to provide a new five- floor workshop block which will accommodate facilities for teaching carpentry and joinery, bricklaying, plastering, decorating, plumbing, welding, machine fitting and electrical installation and repair work. A number of students are found places each year as student apprentices or junior draughtsmen with firms in Britain, and a record of 24 were placed this year. A new development was the participation of Australian firms in this valuable form of training.

Post-Secondary Colleges are post-war institutions, the impetus behind their establishment being the influx of students and teachers from universities and colleges in China during the years 1947-50. The present enrolment is 4,108. The Post-Secondary Colleges Ordinance (1960) provides for the registration and control of the colleges and for their exemption from the provisions of the Educa- tion Ordinance. The object is to give statutory recognition to those institutions whose status approaches, but does not attain, that of a university. In October the ordinance was amended to permit greater flexibility in the constitutions of the colleges without re- ducing the statutory powers of the Director of Education.

The three grant colleges-Chung Chi, New Asia and United— which have been receiving Government grants since August 1959, invited Mr J. D. Pearson, Librarian of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, to advise on the organiza- tion, administration and development of library facilities. Mr Pearson arrived in Hong Kong in January 1962, and submitted