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Wednesday, March 15, 1972
HUMAN INVESTMENT IMPORTANT IN INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT
More Technicians And Craftsmen Training Facilities Needed
Human investment is even more important than financial investment in
the development of industry, Dr, the Honourable S.Y. Chung said today.
He was speaking in the Legislative Council when the debate on the
Budget was resumed.
"Therefore, we should and must make adequate investment in the development
of our human resources through technical education," he added.
Dr. Chung stressed that by technical education he meant technical
education at all levels
technologists and professional engineers, technicians
and technician engineers, craftsmen and machine operators.
He said the deficiency lay at the lower levels of technical institutes
and vocational schools.
The Hong Kong Polytechnic would take care of 4,000 full-time and
20,000 part time students by 1975.
He pointed out that based on the scale factor alone, without the
application of the sophistication factor, Hong Kong would need eight technical
institutes by 1976.
"The provision of only three such institutes is completely out of
proportion," he added.
He said he personally could not agree with the arguments of the Director
of Education that the surveys conducted by the Industrial Training Advisory
Committee had not been really accurate and rather out of date.
/He pointed