Includes minutes, discussion papers and memoranda, on the planning and post-implementation review of the Putonghua course, which was offered at the Colleges of Education to a selected group of students of the Full-Time Three-Year and Two-Year Courses from the 1986/87 academic year.

Includes suggested syllabuses of the common and college units of both English, an elective subject, and English Language Skills, a core curriculum programme, of the full-time courses offered at the Colleges of Education and the Hong Kong Technical Teachers' College ("HKTTC"). Both the common and college units were developed jointly by the English Departments of the Colleges of Education and HKTTC. The common units were available for study at all four Colleges, whereas the college units were offered specifically to students enrolled at a particular College.

This series consists of records relating to the development and review of full-time and part-time courses which were offered at the Colleges of Education, the Hong Kong Technical Teachers' College ("HKTTC"), and the Institute of Language in Education ("ILE") between 1975 and 1988. The records include proposed syllabuses, minutes, memoranda, surveys, discussion papers and reports. Most of the records are concerned with the development and review of two full-time initial courses of teacher education which were introduced in 1980 – a new full-time three-year course and a restructured full-time two-year course. The three-year course was offered at the three Colleges of Education from September 1980, whereas the two-year course was first offered at Northcote College of Education from September 1980, then at Sir Robert Black College of Education and Grantham College of Education from September 1983 and September 1984 respectively. The rest of the records look at the curriculum of full-time courses in general, the planning and review of a course on the teaching of Putonghua at the three Colleges of Education, and the development of a part-time in-service course on the use of Chinese for secondary school teachers in teaching specific subjects for the ILE.

Includes meeting particulars, reports and memoranda, on the planning, implementation and review of courses on the use of Chinese for secondary school teachers for teaching specific subjects. The courses were developed jointly by the Advisory Inspectorate of the Education Department, the Colleges of Education, the Hong Kong Technical Teachers' College, and the Institute of Language in Education.

The deposit consists of departmental reports of the 1983/84, 1985/86, 1986/87 and 1987/88 academic years, compiled by the subject departments of Northcote College of Education.

The series consists of annual departmental reports compiled by the subject departments of Northcote College of Education on staffing, course content, course and teaching practice evaluation, student enrolment, departmental activities and achievements.

Includes memoranda, meeting notes, data sheets, reports and bound volumes regarding the use of the Management Information and Control System ("MICS") at the Colleges of Education and the Hong Kong Technical Teachers' College.

The titles of the bound volumes are as follows:

• MICS Procedure Manual 1987;
• Application of Management Information & Control System in Colleges of Education, Pilot Study 1986 (2 versions in total, and each version has 3 copies);
• Management Information Derived from 86-87 MICS Exercise;
• Management Information Derived from 87-88 MICS Exercise.

This deposit consists of records relating to the development and review of full-time and part-time courses which were offered by the Colleges of Education, the Hong Kong Technical Teachers' College and the Institute of Language in Education between 1975 and 1988. The records include proposed syllabuses, minutes, memoranda, surveys, discussion papers and reports.

Includes draft syllabi of the college units offered by the Music Department at Northcote College of Education for the full-time two-year and three-year courses; and first draft of the units developed jointly by the Science Departments of the Colleges of Education for the full-time two-year and three-year courses.