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Monday, April 12, 1976

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Pointing out that the beat way to a technical career was

through an apprenticeship, Mr. Price told the students that when

they left the Associatior pre-vocational school on completing

their studies, they would be ideally placed for a technical career

through an approved apprenticeship.

He said that the Industrial Training Division of

the Labour Department had encouraged and assisted employers to

start proper apprenticeship schemes, in which apprentices would

receive both the practical on-the-job training and the rel ted

technical education by means of part-time day-release system,

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No fewer than 210 of the 290 young people placed in craft

apprecenticeship schemes last year came from pre-vocational schools,

Mr. Price said.

"Those from pre-vocational schools have a distinct

advantage, particularly in that for those who entered an apprentice-

ship in the trades in which they specialised during their pre-

vocational schooling, the normal period of apprenticeship of four

years is reduced to three years, he added.

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Mr. Irice predicted that because the "pprenticeship

Ordinance provided for an over all expansion of apprenticeship,

there would be more and more apprenticeship o portunities for young

people who left pre-vocational schools.

Commenting on the ratio of gneral and practical education

a pre-vocational school she ld provi e, Mr. Price said the combina-

tion of about 50% per cent of general education and 50 per cent of practical

technical education, as was given in the Association's pre-vocational

school, was the correct mix.

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