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Supplementary to Question No. 3g
Legco meeting on 29 June 1988.
PROF. POON: Sir, it is very unlikely that fresh graduates
will have real experience in industry or consultancy.
Will the Government, being the largest employer in Hong
Kong, re-consider recruiting fresh graduates and give them
on-the-job training, in order to prepare enough local.
graduates and local officers for the needs of EPD?
overseas.
то take in
SECRETARY FOR HEALTH AND WELFARE : Sir, as I mentioned in
the main reply, the EPD already undertakes a great deal of
in-house training and its staff are sent on specialised
courses, both in Hong Kong and
fresh graduates with no experience would greatly increase
the workload of the already hard-pressed experienced
staff. There is therefore a very limited capacity at the
moment for the department to take in fresh graduates.
DR. LAM (in Cantonese): Sir, the Secretary has said that
because of the increase in activity in the field, there
are temporary problems? Can I ask why there has been this
activity?
dramatic increase in
IS it because of an
under-estimate of the work or whether there have been any
sudden emergencies and how long will this situation last?