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EDUCATION

Community Youth Club

The Community Youth Club (CYC) movement has attracted a total of 21,450 mem- bers since it was launched late in 1977 with the support of the government and a donation from Lions International District 303.

The movement aims to involve young people, mainly Primary 4 to Form 3 pupils, in various community projects. Most of the CYC groups take the form of school clubs engaged in extra-curricular activities at three levels - school, district and territory- wide. School-based activities are organised by one or more groups within a school and are advised and assisted by the CYC Section of the Education Department. Projects include cleaning beaches, picnic grounds and buildings; visits; first-aid training courses; and training camps.

District activities see a group of schools join together for more ambitious projects, such as the Wong Tai Sin District Civic Week, the Tsuen Wan District Joint Schools Science Exhibition and the Tai Po District Action Committee Against Narcotics Publicity Campaign. Territory-wide projects involving the whole CYC movement include Walks for a Million, the CYC Chinese Slogan Competition, the CYC Original Song Competition, a general knowledge quiz and inter-school road safety project design competitions.

New clubs are serviced by a small permanent unit at the Education Department and are organised by a committee comprising representatives of the Education Depart- ment, the Government Information Services, the Home Affairs Department, the New Territories Administration, Lions Clubs, and secondary and primary schools.

Educational Television

三 The Educational Television Service (ETV) programmes are produced locally, in col- our, by the Education Department and Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK). The programmes, which are transmitted by the commercial television stations, are based on syllabuses used in primary and secondary schools and are designed to complement classroom teaching. Notes for teachers suggest preparation and follow-up activities and, in the case of primary school programmes, notes for pupils also are provided. Evaluations supplied by teachers, questionnaires, visits to schools by ETV producers and inspectors, and reports from inspectors of the Advisory Inspectorate have re- sulted in many improvements to ETV since its inception in 1971.

In September, ETV was extended to Form 3 pupils following the installation in secondary schools of a further 280 video cassette recorders and 370 colour television receivers.

Primary school ETV programmes cover the four basic subject areas of Chinese, English, mathematics and social studies taught at Primary 3 to 6. Secondary school programmes are produced for Forms 1 to 3 in the same four subjects plus science. ETV's total audience during 1978 was estimated at 260,000 secondary and 360,000 primary school pupils.

Hong Kong Students in Britain

The Student Section of the Hong Kong Government Office in London is responsible for keeping records of Hong Kong students and nurse trainees in Britain who register with the Education Department before leaving Hong Kong. The section helps students