Junior Technical School

The "Red Brick House", the former home of the Junior Technical School from 1947 to 1979. Photo credit: Dan Waters Collection, VTC VPET Repository.

South China Morning Post, 15 March 1935. Reproduced with permission from SCMP.

Junior Technical School (初級工業學校) was founded by the Hong Kong Government in 1933. The first Principal was White, George. It was Government's first venture into full-time technical education. The school offered four-year course for pre-apprentice training during the early years, and it had 4 teachers and 40 students. In 1947, the school was affiliated with The Government Trade School and resided in the "Red Brick House" at Wan Chai, Wood Road. The school then span off and renamed as Victoria Technical School (維多利亞工業學校) since the 1950s. This is the first Government Technical College in Hong Kong.

In 1931, a committee was formed under the chairmanship of Sir William Hornell, then Vice-Chancellor of Hong Kong University, to consider the possibility of introducing a system of technical education. The Report’s three main recommendations were:

● the setting up of a junior technical school,

● the provision of evening classes for apprentices, and

● the commencement of full-time classes at a later date.

This report resulted in the Government’s first venture into full-time technical education in 1933. This secondary school ran a narrow, four-year course designed mainly as pre-apprentice training for the engineering trades. Junior Technical School was first located in the former Victoria British School on Caroline Hill. The school was temporary closed during the time of Japanese occupation and reopened at the "Red Brick House", which located at Wanchai Wood Road, after the war in 1947. At that time, the school was operated under the Hong Kong Technical College and resumed its operation with 83 pupils. Entry requirement was at age of 12 and at Primary 6 level. It offered a 4-year secondary technical school education towards engineering, including the learning of Model Construction, Technical Drawing and Applied Science, which prepared students for apprenticeship in engineering firms.

Until 1957, Hong Kong Technical College moved to Hung Hom and Junior Technical College had became the sole occupant of the "Red Brick House" until 1970 when Morrison Hill Technical Institute established at the same building. Junior Technical School altered its name in 1957 to Victoria Technical School, when a standard secondary school curriculum was started phasing in. In 1979, the school was re-provisioned and moved to the existing premises. It was renamed to Tang Shiu Kin Victoria Technical School in honour of the donor Sir Shiu-kin Tang. Girls were admitted into the School for the first time, and the School became co-educational. A total number of 36 classes were operated. In 1997, the school was renamed to Tang Shiu Kin Victoria Government Secondary School (鄧肇堅維多利亞官立中學) , in order to reflect its transition to traditional grammar school.

External links

• Tang Shiu Kin Victoria Government Secondary School
• Wikipedia - Tang Shiu Kin Victoria Government Secondary School

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