SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1982
BRIGHT FUTURE FOR TECHNICAL INSTITUTES GRADUATES
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GRADUATES OF TECHNICAL INSTITUTES ARE WELL ACCEPTED BY INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE AND IN THE PAST FIVE YEARS THEIR AVERAGE SALARIES HAVE RISEN BY 135 TO 214 PER CENT, ACCORDING TO THE FINDINGS OF A TRACER STUDY CONDUCTED AMONG FULL-TIME GRADUATES OF JULY, 1977.
QUESTIONNAIRES WERE SENT TO THE 1 013 GRADUATES OF MORRISON HILL, KWAI CHUNG AND KWUN TONG TECHNICAL INSTITUTES AND OF THESE 521 RESPONDED, AN EDUCATION DEPARTMENT SPOKESMAN SAID.
ACCORDING TO THE RETURNS 94.5 PER CENT OF THE RESPONDENTS WERE EMPLOYED AT THE TIME OF THE SURVEY, HE SAID, AND THE REMAINDER WERE EITHER LOOKING FOR SATISFACTORY JOBS OR PURSUING FULL-TIME STUDIES.
OVER 40 PER CENT OF THE RESPONDENTS WERE EMPLOYED IN INDUSTRY, SOME 20 PER CENT IN COMMERCE, AND THE REST IN PUBLIC UTILITIES AND GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS.
MORE THAN 80 PER CENT REGARDED THE COURSES THEY ATTENDED AT THE TECHNICAL INSTITUTES AS RELEVANT TO THEIR PRESENT JOBS, THE SPOKESMAN SAID.
THE FINDINGS SHOWED THAT IN 1977 THE AVERAGE SALARY OF TECHNICIAN GRADUATES WAS $1 002, AND THAT FOR POST-FORM 5 COMMERCIAL GRADUATES WAS $766.
+THE IR SALARIES HAVE RISEN TO $3 074 AND $2 406 RESPECTIVELY IN 1981, REPRESENTING INCREASES OF 207 AND 214 PER CENT OVER FIVE YEARS, THE SPOKESMAN SAID.
THE SALARIES FOR CRAFT GRADUATES AND POST-FORM 3 GRADUATES HAVE ALSO RISEN BY 135 AND 141 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY IN THE CORRESPONDING PERIOD, HE SAID.
SINCE THEIR GRADUATION IN 1977, SOME 13 PER CENT OF THE RESPONDENTS HAVE EITHER COMPLETED OR ARE STILL PURSUING FURTHER FULL-TIME STUDY IN THE UNIVERSITIES, THE POLYTECHNIC, TECHNICAL INSTITUTES, SECONDARY SCHOOLS AND OTHER INSTITUTIONS.
ALSO, SOME 70 PER CENT HAVE EITHER COMPLETED OR ARE STILL PURSUING PART-TIME STUDY IN THESE INSTITUTIONS, AND THE MOST POPULAR MODES OF STUDY ARE PART-TIME DAY-RELEASE AND EVENING COURSES.
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