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Contact with Education Department encouraged
The Education Department has produced a full-colour comprehensive telephone guide to assist members of the public to obtain general information on education services provided by the department.
Entitled 'Get in Touch with the Education Department', the new telephone guide carries illustrations on how to use the 24-hour Automatic Telephone Enquiry System and provides a list of useful telephone numbers of various sections of the department as well as the 19 district education offices.
A total of 550,000 copies of the guide have been produced in Chinese and English and are now available from all district education offices, district offices, and family services centres of the Social Welfare Department.
The Senior Education Officer (Serving the Community Unit), Mrs Kitty Cheung, said that the department had just added a Putonghua option to its 24-hour Automatic Telephone Enquiry System.
"Starting this month, by dialling 2891 0088, members of the public can listen to pre-recorded messages in Cantonese, English or Putonghua concerning a wide range of education services," she said.
"The topics range from Primary One admission, junior secondary education assessment and student guidance to teacher registration, application for supply teacher posts and information on teacher welfare such as procedure for provident fund withdrawal and mortgage interest subsidy scheme.
"In times of typhoon or rainstorms, the department will also make emergency announcements such as school closure through the system."
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