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Up to 5.30 pm today, the department's central hotline (2782 7511, 2782 7625 and 2782 7639-40) and the district education offices have handled 627 enquiries on the admission procedures today. This brings to 2,421 the total number of enquiries made at the hotline and district education offices.
At the same time, the Careers Education Centre of the Education Department received 303 visitors and 229 telephone enquiries on matters related to the S6 admission procedures, further studies, locally and overseas, and careers by the time it closed at 5.30 pm today.
This brings to 1,442 the total number of people visited and 1,053 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 60 calls from students and parents. four needed counselling. This brings to 251 the total number of calls made to the section since the release of the HKCEE results on August 8.
The Careers Education Centre, at Room 206 of Mong Kok Government Offices at 30 Luen Wan Street, Mong Kok, provides students with materials on opportunities for further studies, training and information on various profession.
The centre will resume its normal office hours on Monday from 8.45 am to 12.45 pm and 2.15 pm to 4.45
pm from Mondays to Fridays, and 9.15 am to 11.45 am
on Saturdays.
End/Friday, August 11, 1995
Revised fee for crown rent enquiry
The Director of Accounting Services announced today (Friday) that the fee for enquiry of a crown rent account maintained by the Treasury will be revised from $55 to $60 with effect from August 14. The increase is to recover the costs incurred in providing such services.
End/Friday, August 11, 1995