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Friday, February 15, 1974

NEED FOR SOPHISTICATED ORGANISATION OF CAREERS MASTERS

"Main Thrust Must Be In Schools" Mr. Lowe

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A more sophisticated organisation of Careers Masters in schools

is needed in Hong Kong, the Deputy Director of Education (Administration),

Mr. Charles Lowe said today.

It was therefore vitally important, he noted, to build up and

improve a regional organisation based on the Education Department to sustain

and support such an organisation.

Much has been done; much more requires to be done," he said.

"Careers guidance is an essential function of the schools.

"The Labour Department can be of help but the main thrust must be

in the schools,"

Mr. Lowe pointed out that it was only the teachers who have a true

insight into the personalities and abilities of their students.

He called for the setting up of top-level and grass-roots machinery

because "closer co-operation is vitally important and is required in this

enormous field."

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Speaking at the Christian Alliance College's Speech Day, Mr. Lowe

said Hong Kong was now "at something of a cross-road in education," and he

was sure the ideas that interested bodies and the public had been encouraged

to express would grow into policy.

"This is an excellent thing. The system of education and the schools

in a very real sense belong to the people of Hong Kong.

They in