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In
June
1987
an
2
officer of
the
Education
Department was appointed to
was appointed to serve as secretary to the Hong Kong Extra-Curricular Activities Co-ordinators' Association
with a view to providing more professional support
organisation,
to this
objective is to better, promote
whose main
in activities
schools.
extra-curricular-
This
provides assistance to the Association in a number of
officer
particularly
in
organising
extra-mural courses,
and
arranging seminars and workshops for the co-ordinators.
At
the same time, the Education Department is pushing forward
the development
activities
of centrally
on a
territory-wide
organised
extra-curricular
scale.
These include
the
Community Youth Club Scheme, the Duke of Edinburgh Award
Scheme and the Summer Youth Programmes, all of which attract
large numbers of participating students.
It is
considered
instructions
on
the
inappropriate to
to · be duties
undertaken
lay
down
by
the
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additional teachers provided to strengthen extra-curricular
must
be
the
activities since School Principals
given
discretion to deploy their staff as they see fit given their awareness of the aptitudes, interests and abilities of their
students. Instead, the Education Department
believes that the focus should be to monitor the end result,
overall quantity and quality
staff
and
that
the
is,
extra-curricular activities provided by each school.
of
This
monitoring is undertaken by District Education Officers
during their regular visits to schools.