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EDUCATION

techniques are provided in the autumn of 1968. The majority of the courses are conducted in Cantonese or Mandarin.

THE TECHNICAL COLLEGE

The Technical College has a total enrolment of 16,670 students in 101 courses, comprising 1,666 full-time students in 63 classes, 502 part-time day students in 21 classes and 14,502 evening students in 456 classes distributed in 23 centres. The college has eight depart- ments; building, surveying and structural engineering; commerce and management studies; electrical engineering; mechanical, pro- duction and marine engineering; textile industries; nautical studies; mathematics and science; and industrial and commercial design. These provide full-time courses leading to the college's own higher and ordinary diplomas and to the associate membership examina- tions of many British professional institutions, a number of which have granted exemption from certain parts of their examinations to students in the higher diploma courses. The academic standard required for entry to most of these full-time classes is a Hong Kong Certificate of Education with passes in specified subjects.

In addition to the higher and ordinary diploma courses, the electrical engineering department offers courses for first and second- class radio officers, and a 3-month course in radar maintenance which gives training to qualified seagoing officers and technicians. The department of nautical studies operates courses for masters and mates of foreign-going vessels and also courses for radar observers. The department of commerce and management studies offers, mainly for girls, secretarial courses. The department of mechanical, production and marine engineering operates a produc- tivity centre. Since its inception in 1961, 36 productivity courses have been offered to more than 538 managerial and supervisory staff from local factories, representing some 15 different industries. Full-time courses at craftsman and pre-apprentice levels are also offered in the building, electrical and mechanical trades. Approval has now been obtained for the college to conduct the alternative training scheme for marine engineers and recognition has been given to the course. The department of industrial and commercial design, which was opened in 1967, conducting evening classes on commercial and basic design, now operates a full-time 3-year Higher