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EDUCATION

college had a total enrolment of 11,111 students in 88 courses, comprising 1,770 full-time students in 63 classes, 559 part-time day students in 22 classes and 8,782 evening students in 289 classes distributed in nine centres. The college has eight departments: build- ing, surveying and structural engineering; commerce and manage- ment studies; electrical engineering; mechanical, production 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 examinations 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. One-year professional diploma courses leading on from the higher diploma to the Part II examinations of the Council of Engineering Institutions have been approved, as has a three-year higher diploma course in company secretaryship.

In addition to the two-year and three-year diploma courses, the electrical engineering department also offers courses for first and second-class radio officers, and a three-month course in radar main- tenance which gives training to qualified sea-going officers and technicians. The department of nautical studies operates courses for deck officer cadets, masters and mates of foreign-going vessels and also courses for radar observers. The department of commerce and management studies offers courses for industrial supervisors and, mainly for girls, secretarial courses. The department of mechani- cal, production and marine engineering also operates a productivity centre. Since the inception of the productivity centre in 1961, 40 productivity courses have been offered to more than 586 managerial supervisory and technician staff from local factories, representing some 15 different industries. Full-time courses at craftsman level are also offered in radio and television servicing. Approval has been obtained for the college to conduct the alternative training scheme for marine engineers and recognition has been given to the course. The full-time three-year Higher Diploma course in industrial design will have its first batch of graduates in July 1971.

The eight departments also provide part-time day and evening courses. These lead to qualifications in a range of technical and commercial subjects at professional and technician levels.