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WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 1990
TERTIARY
INSTITUTIONS HAD
MOREOVER, MR YEUNG SAID, THE ANTICIPATED THE GROWING PUBLIC INTEREST IN ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION,
THEY NOW OFFERED NO FEWER THAN 22 ENVIRONMENT-RELATED COURSES AT FIRST DEGREE AND POST-GRADUATE LEVELS AND FIVE AT SUB-DEGREE LEVEL.
ADDITIONAL COURSES WERE BEING PLANNED FOR THE NEXT TRIENNIUM.
"THE AVAILABILITY OF SUCH A DIVERSIFIED RANGE OF CHOICES MEANS THAT STUDENTS ARE GIVEN THE BROADEST POSSIBLE GROUNDING BEFORE THEY ENTER THE JOB MARKET, MR YEUNG NOTED.
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HE ADDED THAT IT WAS UP TO THE EMPLOYERS TO PROVIDE THE NECESSARY TRAINING TO ENSURE THAT THEIR NEWLY APPOINTED GRADUATES BECAME PROFICIENT IN THEIR JOBS.
"FOR EXAMPLE, OUT OF A CURRENT STRENGTH OF 133 PROFESSIONAL OFFICERS IN THE EPD, 100 HAVE ALREADY RECEIVED SOME KIND OF IN-SERVICE TRAINING AND THERE ARE PLANS TO TRAIN THE REST WITHIN THREE YEARS.
"AT THE NON-PROFESSIONAL LEVEL, THE VOCATIONAL TRAINING COUNCIL OPERATES EIGHT ENVIRONMENT-RELATED COURSES EACH YEAR FOR ABOUT 650 TECHNICIANS AT ITS TECHNICAL INSTITUTES," MR YEUNG SAID.
AS HONG KONG BECAME ACCUSTOMED TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF OUR ANTI- POLLUTION MEASURES AND ACCEPTED ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AS AN IMPORTANT CIVIC OBLIGATION OVER TIME, MR YEUNG SAID IT WAS LIKELY THAT THE DEMAND FOR ORGANISED TRAINING WOULD GROW AND TAKE MORE CONCRETE SHAPE.
"I AM CONFIDENT THAT OUR UNIVERSITIES, POLYTECHNICS AND THE VOCATIONAL TRAINING COUNCIL WOULD BE WILLING ΤΟ RESPOND WITH MORE SPECIFIC TRAINING PROGRAMMES AT VARIOUS LEVELS OF PROFICIENCY, HE ADDED.
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ACCOUNT OF MAY 3 MARINE INCIDENT GIVEN
STRACHAN, GAVE
3.
AT THE
THE ACTING SECRETARY FOR SECURITY, THE HON IAN AN ACCOUNT OF THE MARINE INCIDENT THAT HAPPENED ON MAY LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL MEETING TODAY (WEDNESDAY).
IN REPLY TO A QUESTION FROM THE HON MIRIAM LAU, MR STATED THE FACTS OF THE INCIDENT AS THE
FOLLOWS:
GOVERNMENT
KNEW
STRACHAN THEM
AS
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