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"The Education Department (ED) will make arrangements for the reimbursement of phone charges to teachers who use their personal mobile phones during school excursions," the spokesman said.
As for progress made on other recommendations, ED had issued a revised school circular on visits organised for school children, covering safety precautions and a set of new guidelines on outdoor activities.
"Another set of guidelines, on extra-curricular activities in schools, will be issued some time this month," the spokesman said.
"Seminars for teachers will be held next month in connection with the two sets of guidelines."
On publicity, the spokesman said the Enjoy Safe Hiking campaign, organised by AFD, had been launched on October 13 and would last until February next year.
Some 95,000 copies of a leaflet has been printed by the department for distribution to members of the public to provide safety hints on hiking safety, including how to escape from a hill fire.
They can be obtained from district offices and country park visitors centres.
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Prescribed qualifications for medical lab technologists
The Governor-in-Council has approved amendments to the Medical Laboratory Technologists (Registration and Disciplinary Procedure) Regulations and the Occupational Therapists (Registration and Disciplinary Procedure) Regulations.
The part-time Bachelor of Science/Bachelor of Science (Honours) degree course in biomedical science awarded by the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, the then Hong Kong Polytechnic, will be included in the Medical Laboratory Technologists (Registration and Disciplinary) Regulations as one of the prescribed qualifications registrable under section 12(1)(a) of the Supplementary Medical Professions Ordinance.
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