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Monday, January 29, 1973
GOVERNMENT ACT TO IMPROVE TRAINING
In The Printing Industry
The Government will soon set up a temporary workshop in Caine Lane
to provide complementary technical education for printing apprentices.
Disclosing this today, Mr. Alex S.C. Wu, Chairman of the Printing
Industrial Committee of the Industrial Training Advisory Committee, said
that this was an interim measure pending the establishment of a printing
department in 1975 in the Kwun Tong Technical Institute.
"The industry will need about 1,200 new craftsmen annually to
sustain expansion and cover wastage," he said.
This, he added, was brought out in a manpower survey conducted
by the Printing Industrial Committee way back in 1969.
"The need is not only to train the numbers required but also to
train to a higher standard than ever before," said Mr. Wu.
"We will only be able to take full advantage of sophisticated printing
machinery, to increase productivity, to raise our standard of printing and
to maintain our ability to compete when we have craftsmen trained to western
standards."
Mr. Wu said that proper training facilities in the printing industry
were almost non-existent.
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