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EDUCATION

reading for higher degrees and 95 reading for diplomas and certificates, 35 students at the Chinese Language School and 15 external students. The number of full-time teaching posts (including demonstratorships and tutorships) at the beginning of the academic year 1969-70 was 404. All the university's degrees in professional subjects (medicine, architecture, and civil, electrical and mechanical engineering) are on the same professional footing as those of universities in Britain.

The new Department of Law admitted its first students at the beginning of the academic year 1969-70. The department provides a full-time three-year course leading to the honours degree of LLB.

The Department of Education of the University of Hong Kong offers to graduates a one-year full-time course leading to a Diploma in Education and a two-year part-time course leading to a Certificate in Education. The department also provides a one-year part-time qualifying course for candidates who seek to enrol for the MA (Ed) degree and to successful students offers the MA (Ed) either as a six-term part-time course spread over two academic years, or as a one-year full-time course. As in other departments, the PhD is also available for specially qualified and selected candidates.

The Department of Extra-mural Studies of the University of Hong Kong provided over 181 evening and day-time courses for adult students in 1968-9. During the period July 1968 to June 1969, 4,337 attended regular courses and 1,168 attended public lectures, seminars and conferences. Some of these courses are conducted in Cantonese and Mandarin but the majority are in English. Subjects vary from Oriental Studies through a full range of liberal arts and language courses to economics, law and com- merce, and include a rapidly growing section of vocational and professional courses leading to a number of qualifications, including a Diploma in Management Studies which is recognised by the British Institute of Management.

The University of Hong Kong conducts its own advanced level examination, the standard of which is similar to that of the GCE advanced level examination. Entry to the university is generally dependent upon successful results in this examination. In May