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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1974.
PART-TIME DAY-RELEASE COMMERCIAL. EDUCATION
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THE ACTING DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION CTECHNIC/L), MR. DANIEL WATERS, TODAY CALLED FOR THE INTRODUCTION CF APPRENTICESHIPS IN COMMERCE LINKED WITH PART-TIME DAY-RELEASE
CLASSES.
+I SHOULD LIKE TO SEE SOME OF THE MORE FAR-SIGHTED EMPLOYEES IN HONG KONG, WHO APPRECIATE THE VALUE OF COMMERCIAL EDUCATION, RELEASING THEIR EMPLOYEES FOR PART-TIME DAY-RELEASE TRAINING IN THE SAME WAY AS IS BEING DONE IN OTHER AREAS OF OUR ECO :OLY, HE SAID.
THIS WOULD NATURALLY HAVE TO BE A TEAM EFFORT INVOLVING EMPLOYERS, THE LABOUR DEPARTMENT, THE TECHNICAL INSTITUTES AND THE EMPLOYEES.
MR. WATERS SAID IT WAS A PITY THAT SO FAR THE MORRISON HILL TECHNICAL INSTITUTE HAD NOT BEEN SUCCESSFUL IN CETT ING ANY CLASSES STARTED AT ALL, ON A PART-TIE DAY-RELEASE BASIS. IN THE FIELD OF COMMERCE ALTHOUGH +WE HAVE BEEN ABLE TO GET A NUM JER OF PART-TIME DAY-RELEASE COURSES OFF THE GROUND IN THE MECHANICAL ENGINEERING, THE ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AND THE CONSTRUCTION DEPARTIENTS.+
THE GOVERNMENT, MR. WATERS POINTED OUT, WAS SETTING AN EXAMPLE BY ORGANISING PART-TIME DAY-RELEASE COURSES FOR ITS SECRETARIAL AND CLERICAL STAFF, MANY OF WHOM HAD GAINED PROMOTION BY SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETING THE COURSES.
THE DEPUTY DIRECTOR WAS SPEAKING AT THE CLOSING CEREMONY OF THE ELEMENTARY SECRETARIAL COURSE ORGANISED BY HONG KONG JAYCEETTES, THE +LADY CHAPTER OF THE HONG KONG JUNIOR CHANDER.+
CONGRATULATING THE PRIZE-WINNERS AT THE CEREMONY MR. WATERS TOLD THEM THAT THE KIND OF TRAINING THAT THEY HAD BEEN RECEIVING OVER THE PAST SEVERAL WEEKS WAS VERY IMPORTANT FOR HONG KONG'S ECONOMY.
+ THE GOVERNMENT OF COURSE RECOGNISES THIS. THAT IS WHY, IN 1954, IN THE THEN TECHNICAL COLLEGE IT SET UP A DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE. THAT IS WHY THE POLYTECHNIC, AT THE PRESENT TIME, HAS TWO DEPARTMENTS DEALING WITH COMMERCE OR ALLIED SUBJECTS. THESE ARE THE DEPARTMENT OF ACCOUNTANCY AND MANAGEMENT STUDIES AND THE DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS STUDIES.
+ THE MORRISON HILL TECHNICAL INSTITUTE SINCE IT WAS FIRST ESTABLISHED IN 1969 HAS HAD A DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCIAL STUDIES. DEPARTMENTS OF COMMERCIAL STUDIES ARE ALSO BEING PLANNED FOR THE KWAI CHUNG INSTITUTE, WHICH IS DUE TO OPEN NEXT YEAR, AND FOR THE SAN PO KONG INSTITUTE WHICH SHOULD OPEN IN 1977.
/+THE GOVERNMENT