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Meanwhile, students may also obtain the list in some newspapers which will publish the list tomorrow.
Students satisfying the minimum entry requirements, including those prevocational schools, evening schools and private candidates, may apply to one or more of these schools before 1 prn tomorrow.
Schools may
offer admission to students instantly and/or display a full list of successful applicants of this stage at 2.30 pm tomorrow. Successful candidates should register with the schools before 4.30 pm on the same day. The department has received one substantiated complaint today.
So far the department has received a total of nine complaints of which five were substantiated. These cases have been settled after investigations by the department.
Meanwhile, the Education Department's central hotline 2782 7511, 2782 7625 and 2782 7639-40 and the 19 district education offices have handled 636 enquiries on the admission procedures today.
The hotline will continue to operate from 9 am to 1 pm and 2 pm to 5 pm from Monday to Friday and from 9 am to noon on Saturday until August 18.
The department's Careers Education Centre has received 403 visitors and handled 275 telephone enquiries on matters related to the S6 admission procedures, further studies, locally or overseas, and careers by the time it closed at 5.30 pm today.
This brings to 1,139 the total number of people visited and 824 callers telephoned the centre since August 8.
The department's Psychological Services Section (tel 2712 7958 and 2714 7852) manned by education counsellors or educational psychologists have today received 79 calls from students and parents. Six of them needed counselling. This brings to 191 the total number of calls made to the section since August 8.