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Educational Services Sub-committee meeting
The chairman of the Educational Services Liaison Sub-committee, Mr Herman S M Hu, said he is confident that the Sub-committee will successfully carry out its advisory functions in the next two years with full support and active participation by members.
Speaking at the Sub-committee's first meeting in the second term today (Thursday), Mr Hu said the committee has 16 members, among whom 10 were selected from 167 applicants from members of the public.
Mr Hu, who has been re-appointed chairman of the Sub-committee, said he was happy with the enthusiastic response and the balanced composition of the Sub- committee.
Its membership comprises three members from the Board of Education, three parents, two students, two teachers, two school administrators, two members of the general public and two representatives from the Education Department
The Sub-committee was first set up in November 1993 under the Board of Education as a channel for the public to exchange views with the Education Department on educational services and to make suggestions to improve the services.
The last Sub-committee during its term had made a number of valuable suggestions to the Education Department to improve its services. Some of them have been implemented and others will be followed up in the future.
These suggestions include adding more pre-recorded messages to the department's 24-hour Automatic Telephone Enquiry Service 2891 0099, stepping up publicity of special education services, installing direction signs for the Careers and Guidance Service Section and printing a telephone directory of the department.
Members of the second term of the Sub-committee will serve for two years from November 1995.
End/Thursday, November 23, 1995