Identity area
Type of entity
Authorized form of name
Parallel form(s) of name
- Sir Robert Black College of Education
- SRBCE
- 柏立基教育學院
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Other form(s) of name
- Third Training College (September 1960 - August 1961)
- 第三師範學院 (September 1960 - August 1961)
- Sir Robert Black Training College (September 1961 - 17 October 1967)
- 柏立基師範專科學校 (September 1961 - 17 October 1967)
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
History
Established in September 1960, the Sir Robert Black College of Education was originally known as The Third Training College and operated as a branch of the Grantham Training College. It was founded to address the increasing demand for teachers resulting from the Primary School Expansion Programme initiated by the Government in 1954. At that time. the College had a staff of 19 and an enrolment of 191 students.
In September 1961, it became an independent College and in October, it was renamed after His Excellency the Governor Sir Robert Black, G.C.M.G., O.B.E. and officially known as Sir Robert Black Training College.
On 18 October 1967, the College, Northcote Training College and Grantham Training College were renamed Colleges of Education. The decision to adopt this change was made because the former title, “training college,” implied that the colleges were primarily concerned with providing basic skills training. In fact, the colleges performed a much broader educational role, including the further education of students, and offered subjects at an increasingly advanced level.
Effective 1 September 1994, the College was merged with four other Colleges of Education to form part of the Hong Kong Institute of Education (now officially known as the Education University of Hong Kong). Following the merger, the two campuses continued to operate under the Institute until its relocation to Tai Po in October 1997.
Places
- Lo Fu Ngam Government Primary School (October 1960 - January 1962)
- Kowloon Docks Memorial School (February 1962 - 1964)
- Hok Yuen Street, Kowloon (1964 - June 1974)
- Caldecott Road, Piper's Hill (15 July 1974 - August 1994) [In 1982, in order to cater for the expansion programme of teacher education, the College was further assigned a secondary school building at Yuen Chau Kok, Shatin as its Annexe and it was officially opened on 11 November 1983.]