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.

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.

Regarding the proposed establishment of a fourth College of Education, in order to absorb the Hong Kong Technical Teachers' College and release the other three Colleges of Education from the need to lease and borrow premises and accommodation for the ever-growing number of students during the 1980s.

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.

Includes agenda and minutes of the Teacher Education Consultative Committee, which was part of a two-tier consultative committee composed of Principals of the Colleges of Education, the Education Department, the University of Hong Kong and the Chinese University of Hong Kong, to better coordinate teacher education matters in Hong Kong.

Includes the revised syllabi of the elective subjects available for study at Northcote College of Education for the full-time two-year and three-year courses.

When both courses were introduced in September 1980, each student was required to elect for study three subjects which he/she intended to teach after graduation from the courses. With effect from September 1984, the syllabi were recast into units of study and students would only be required to study two elective subjects. It was hoped that the reduction in elective studies would pave the way for more flexibility and further improvement of the course curriculum.

Includes minutes of the College Consultative Council.

Includes staff lists, organisation charts and descriptions of job positions in Northcote College of Education for the years 1983, 1985/86, 1987/88, 1988/89 and 1990/91.