WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1989
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VOCATIONAL TRAINING HAS VITAL ROLE
OF THE LEGISLATIVE
VOCATIONAL TRAINING IS VITAL TO THE FUTURE DEVELOPMENT
IN THE HONG KONG COMMUNITY, THE HON STEPHEN CHEONG SAID COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).
TABLING THE SIXTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE VOCATIONAL
CHEONG COUNCIL (VTC), MR
PAID TRIBUTE TO THE COUNCIL'S CHAIRMAN, MR CHAN KAM-CHUEN, UNDER WHOSE LEADERSHIP IN THE YEARS MANY IMPORTANT PROJECTS WERE SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED.
TRAINING
OUTGOING
PAST TWO
FOR THE VTC THE LARGEST IN STUDENT EQUIVALENT
MR CHEONG SAID THE HIGHLIGHT OF THE 1987-88 YEAR WAS THE OPENING OF THE CHAI WAN TECHNICAL INSTITUTE, HONG KONG WITH A
OF 2,700 FULL-TIME PLACES.
CAPACITY
THERE "WITH ITS COMPLETION,
ARE NOW OVER 10,500 FULL-TIMB PER CENT PLACES IN THE TECHNICAL INSTITUTES, AN INCREASE OF OVER 135
THE COUNCIL SINCE
1982 IN
OVER THE
MANAGEMENT OF THESE INSTITUTES, HE SAID.
WAS
ESTABLISHED
AND
TOOK
"THE NUMBER OF PART-TIME PLACES HAS ALSO INCREASED 35,800 TO 49,000 IN THE LAST SIX YEARS."
FROM ABOUT
OF
SEAMEN'S
ANOTHER SIGNIFICANT MILESTONE WAS THE COMING INTO OPERATION
TRAINING CENTRE AND THE THE COUNCIL'S JEWELLERY INDUSTRY TRAINING CENTRE.
ΤΟ IMPROVE OLDER TECHNICAL
MEANWHILE, THE PROJECTS EMBARKED ON BY THE COUNCIL THE TEACHING FACILITIES AND STUDENT AMENITIES IN THE INSTITUTES WERE PROGRESSING MOST SATISFACTORILY.
KWAI INSTITUTE AND INSTITUTE ANNEXE, PART OF THIS YEAR
NEW ANNEXES AT THE THESE INCLUDED THE CONSTRUCTION OF CHUNG TECHNICAL INSTITUTE AND THE KWUN TONG TECHNICAL
HILL TECHNICAL THE REDEVELOPMENT OF THE MORRISON WHICH WERE SCHEDULED FOR COMPLETION IN THE LATER AND IN EARLY TO MID-1990 RESPECTIVELY.
"THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE VOCATIONAL TRAINING COUNCIL WOULD SUPPORT OF HAVE BEEN POSSIBLE WITHOUT THE FIRM GOVERNMENT.
NOT
AND COMMITMENT
THE
"FOR THIS I WOULD LIKE TO THANK GOVERNMENT MOST
SINCERELY
AND
I LOOK FORWARD TO EQUALLY ENTHUSIASTIC CHEONG SAID.
SUPPORT IN THE
FUTURE,
MR
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