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Monday, November 13, 1972
TRAINING SCHEME FOR PRINTING INDUSTRY
The Labour Department and the local leading printing firms are
joining forces to improve the training and provision of manpower at the
craftsman and technician levels in the printing industry.
The firms are starting an apprenticeship training scheme and the
department is giving them every possible assistance in overcoming any
operational difficulties.
The Printing Industrial Committee of the Industrial Training
Advisory Committee, in conjunction with the department and the Hong Kong
Printers Association, will shortly call a second meeting to discuss such
difficulties.
Mr. Alex Wu, chairman of the P.I.C., today called on all printing
firms to attend and be prepared to bring up their problems for discussion
at the meeting.
In a first meeting held recently, he said, the Senior Training
Officer (Apprenticeship) of the department outlined a proposed apprenticeship
training scheme for the various sectors of the printing industry.
He said one of its main features is the award of a certificate to
apprentices who have completed training, thus giving the industry a yardstick
of competency.
"Ever since the meeting, a number of printing firms have either
started or re-organised their training along the lines of the proposed
scheme," he said.
/Mr. Wu said