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EDUCATION

were frequently visited by teachers, school principals, lecturers and members of the Advisory Inspectorate.

To help implement the new syllabuses, the Mathematics Teaching Centre held 16 seminars and 25 workshops for secondary school teachers. More than 20 school representatives visited the centre and had access to resource materials on various mathematics projects. The centre sponsored the First Joint Schools' Mathematics Exhibition in Hong Kong. In addition, metrication seminars are run frequently to help teachers 'think metric' and promote metrication in schools.

Visual Education Centre

In April, 1978, new loan procedures for the Visual Education Centre's audio-visual resources library were introduced to cope with increasing demands from schools for the loan of 16mm films, 35mm filmstrips, slides, recorded tapes, photographs, over- head projector transparencies, study kits and learning packages. About 3,000 copies of each issue of the section's Audio-Visual News Bulletin were circulated to schools and other educational institutions.

The centre's Media Production Services Unit, located at 182 Canton Road, Kowloon, provides facilities for the preparation of inexpensive resource materials by teachers.

Twenty-five sessions of eight practical audio-visual workshops were held for 500 primary and secondary school teachers at the unit during the year. A series of seminars were held for 150 secondary school audio-visual co-ordinators responsible for the overall control and organisation of audio-visual resources in schools. During July, these co-ordinators were invited to attend a ‘dialogue' on the role of the school media resources officer, conducted by a Home Office project director responsible for the production of educational material for use in secondary schools in the United King- dom and a former media resources officer for the London Educational Authority.

Cultural Crafts Centre

The Education Department's Cultural Crafts Centre, established in 1971, accom- modates sections of the Advisory Inspectorate responsible for art and design, crafts and home economics. It provides facilities in well-equipped workshops for running in-service courses in these subjects for teachers in primary and secondary schools. During the year, a wide variety of courses, demonstrations and seminars were or- ganised for about 2,000 teachers. These activities provided an opportunity for teachers to update their knowledge and to exchange ideas on modern teaching methods.

The annual exhibition of Art, Crafts and Home Economics was held in February at the Cultural Crafts Centre. In September, an Art and Design Exhibition was held in the Hong Kong Arts Centre. This exhibition, the largest held since the establishment of the Cultural Crafts Centre, was open to the public for a week. The exhibits, selected from more than 4,000 entries submitted by secondary school students, included two- dimensional and three-dimensional work in a wide variety of materials.

Music

During the year, more than 500 primary and secondary teachers attended seminars, refresher courses and music workshops organised by the Music Advisory Inspectorate