Monday, April 12, 1976
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Pointing out that the beat way to a technical career was
through an apprenticeship, Mr. Price told the students that when
they left the Associatior pre-vocational school on completing
their studies, they would be ideally placed for a technical career
through an approved apprenticeship.
He said that the Industrial Training Division of
the Labour Department had encouraged and assisted employers to
start proper apprenticeship schemes, in which apprentices would
receive both the practical on-the-job training and the rel ted
technical education by means of part-time day-release system,
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No fewer than 210 of the 290 young people placed in craft
apprecenticeship schemes last year came from pre-vocational schools,
Mr. Price said.
"Those from pre-vocational schools have a distinct
advantage, particularly in that for those who entered an apprentice-
ship in the trades in which they specialised during their pre-
vocational schooling, the normal period of apprenticeship of four
years is reduced to three years, he added.
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Mr. Irice predicted that because the "pprenticeship
Ordinance provided for an over all expansion of apprenticeship,
there would be more and more apprenticeship o portunities for young
people who left pre-vocational schools.
Commenting on the ratio of gneral and practical education
a pre-vocational school she ld provi e, Mr. Price said the combina-
tion of about 50% per cent of general education and 50 per cent of practical
technical education, as was given in the Association's pre-vocational
school, was the correct mix.
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