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DRAFT SPEECH BY HON S L CHEN, CBE, JP LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL 29.1.1986
The Third Annual Report on the
Vocational Training Council
Laid before this Council is the third Annual Report of the Vocational Training Council covering the year 1984/85. Sir, at the request of Dr Francis TIEN, the Council Chairman, I have
the honour of introducing it on the Council's behalf.
The
As Dr TIEN says in the Foreword of the Report, 1984 was another successful and highly significant year for the Council and for technical education and industrial training in Hong Kong. The
highlight of the year was the completion of the Kowloon Bay Training Centre Complex which houses five training centres. Kwai Chung Training Centre Complex too, which houses seven
centres, was almost completed at the end of the reporting period. It is now in full operation. with the completion of these multi-discipline training centre complexes, built to meet the
needs of industry, Hong Kong can be justly proud of these unique
facilities.
Another significant milestone was the coming into operation during the year of the Council's Management Development Centre. This Centre has the important task of remedying weaknesses in management and supervisory training in Hong Kong pin-pointed by the Advisory Committee on Diversification in 1979.
These wre the lack of co-ordination between institutions providing
training, the lack of research into the type of training which
would meet the specific needs of Hong Kong's managers and the
subsequent development of suitable programmes and the lack of an
appropriate machinery to promote these programmes.
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