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EDUCATION

at locating, annotating and, if funds are available, acquiring all Chinese journalism and communication materials published since the Ch'ing Dynasty.

For the past eight years, the Social Research Centre has been studying various aspects of social life in Hong Kong including new town planning and development; juvenile delinquency; housing problems; birth control; spatial economy of street- trading activities; urban religious behaviour; medical beliefs and health services; the ideology and organisation of small industries; and the impact of industrialisation on family life.

The Centre for East Asian Studies is carrying out a Vietnamese historical sources project, along with other research projects on Japan and Southeast Asia.

The Public Affairs Research Centre was established in 1977 and is engaged in studies relating to public affairs in Hong Kong, China and Southeast Asia.

Teachers and Teacher Education

In March, 1978, 38,745 teachers were employed in government and registered day schools. They included 9,963 university graduates and 20,032 non-graduates qualified for teaching. In addition, there were 3,428 teachers in subsidised night schools, private tutorial and evening classes. A further 3,666 teachers were engaged in the Evening Institute, the Evening School of Higher Chinese Studies, the Technical Institute Evening Department, in-service courses in the colleges of education and Technical Teachers' College, and private evening colleges and adult classes. Most of these teachers also taught in day schools. It addition, 368 teachers were in special schools.

Except for technical teacher training, teacher education is provided at the Educa- tion Department's three colleges of education - Grantham, Northcote and Sir Robert Black. All three colleges offer two-year full-time courses designed to produce non- graduate teachers qualified to teach in primary schools and the junior forms of secondary schools. The colleges also offer third-year courses aimed at providing more advanced training, both for trained serving teachers and students entering directly after completion of the two-year course. In addition to the specialist subjects of art and design, physical education, music and home economics, the third-year courses cover a wide range of academic subjects. Part-time courses are also provided to train practising teachers. In September, 1978, there were 676 students in the two- year courses, 111 in the third-year courses and 1,077 in the in-service training courses. Technical teacher training is provided at the Hong Kong Technical Teachers' College, also administered by the Education Department. The college is temporarily housed in government primary school premises, but uses facilities at the Morrison Hill Technical Institute. The college trains technical teachers for secondary schools, prevocational schools and technical institutes. Several types of courses are offered. The one-year full-time course is intended for mature people who are well qualified and experienced in a technical field who have decided to take up technical teaching as a career. Generous grants are offered to attract suitable recruits from commerce and industry. To meet the needs of the new technical institute opening at Kowloon Tong in 1979, some staff have already been appointed and enrolled at the college in the one-year pre-service course. The two-year full-time course accepts secondary