Kowloon Technical School
Kowloon Technical School 九龍工業學校 | |
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332 - 334 Cheung Sha Wan Road, Kowloon | |
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Type | Government Technical Secondary School |
Motto | "Thorough" 「貫徹始終」 |
Established | 11 September 1961 |
Principal | Mr CHOI Sung-ki, Dennis |
Faculty | Halliwell (Red), Lau (Yellow), School (Blue), Cho (Green) |
Enrollment | around 1100, 29 Classes |
Information | (852) 2386 0737 |
Sex | Boy (has Girls in Form 6 - 7) |
Website | http://www.kts.edu.hk/ |
Kowloon Technical School (九龍工業學校) is a technical secondary school founded by Hong Kong Government in Sham Shui Po of Kowloon in Hong Kong. The motto is Thorough (貫徹始終). To cope with the change of the society, Kowloon Technical School
Structure
The school is a government technical secondary school, emphasizes on the Whole Person Education (全人教育). Despite the normal secondary school education, KTS enrichs their students with technical, commerce, civil education, information technology subjects. The subjects taught cover literature, science, social science, technical and commerce. In 2005 - 06 academic year, there are 29 classes, each has 5 classes from Form 1 - 5 (7th - 11th classes), and 2 classes from Form 6 - 7 (12th - 13th classes).
Features
Kowloon Technical School stresses on teaching science and technology subjects. Together with the traditional technical and science education, students can learn the advanced technologies from information technology, graphic communications, electronics subjects.
General education is the other emphatic area. Students can appreciate their lives through the study of physical education, music, arts, civic education and general studies etc.
History
Kowloon Technical School was established on 11th September 1961. Before the establishment, it was named as Sham Shui Po Technical School. In 1964, the unification with the Fuk Wah Secondary Modern School (福華街實用中學) had been performed, and the biggest secondary school in Hong Kong was formed. In the late 1960's and 1970's, Kowloon Technical School had more than 1900 students with 51 classes. However, due to the population re-structuring in western Kowloon, the students population has been reduced to around 1100.
In 1997, the Review of Prevocational and Secondary Technical Education suggested that technical schools can change their name by removing the labelling terms. Kowloon Technical School was invited to change their name to Kowloon Government Secondary School (九龍官立中學). However, due to the strong objections, the original name of the school was preserved.
In 1998, the teaching medium has been totally changed from English to Chinese. In 1999, School Management Committee of Government Schools has been founed.
Notable Alumni
- Vincent Cheng - HSBC Asia Pacific President
- Ambrose Lee - HKSAR Secretary for Security Bureau
- Albert Cheng - LegCo
- Ming-Yum Ng - Former LegCo (Passed Away)
- Anthony Wong Yiu Ming - Singer