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SUNDAY, MAY 18, 1980

TECHNICAL INSTITUTE GRADUATES POPULAR WITH EMPLOYERS

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MOST OF THE GRADUATES FROM THE FOUR TECHNICAL INSTITUTES LAST YEAR HAVE FOUND JOBS BY EARLY OCTOBER, ACCORDING TO A RECENT SURVEY BY THE TECHNICAL EDUCATION DIVISION OF THE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT.

THE SURVEY WAS CONDUCTED AMONG MORE THAN 1 000 GRADUATES, AND OF THE 950 WHO SUBMITTED RETURNS, 77 PER CENT WERE WORKING BY THEN, A SPOKESMAN FOR THE DIVISION SAID.

ANOTHER 17.2 PER CENT OF THE GRADUATES WERE PURSUING FURTHER FULL-TIME STUDIES, HE ADDED.

THE GRADUATES HAD ATTENDED FULL-TIME TECHNICIAN OR CRAFT LEVEL COURSES AT THE MORRISON HILL, KWAI CHUNG, KWUN TONG OR HAKING WONG TECHNICAL INSTITUTES.

THE AIM OF THE SURVEY WAS TO FIND OUT THEIR EMPLOYMENT SITUATION, AND TO ASSESS THE DEGREE OF ACCEPTANCE OF FULL-TIME TECHNICAL INSTITUTE GRADUATES BY INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE.

+ABOUT 13.8 PER CENT OF THE TECHNICIAN GRADUATES AND 55.7 PER CENT OF THE CRAFT GRADUATES JOINED THE APPRENTICESHIP SCHEME, + THE SPOKESMAN SAID.

AVERAGE MONTHLY SALARIES OF THE GRADUATES RANGED FROM $755 TO $1 006 FOR THOSE WHO TOOK COMMERCIAL COURSES, AND FROM $704 TO $1 294 FOR THOSE WHO STUDIED TECHNICAL SUBJECTS.

+PRESS_ADVERTISEMENTS, TECHNICAL INSTITUTE CIRCULARS AND TEACHERS ARE FOUND TO BE THE CHIEF SOURCES OF INFORMATION FOR EMPLOYMENT, THE SPOKESMAN SAID,

ACCORDING TO THE RETURNS, 88.5 PER CENT OF THE EMPLOYED GRADUATES CONTINUED TO UNDERTAKE SOME FORM OF PART-TIME STUDY, MAINLY IN TECHNICAL INSTITUTES OR THE HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC.

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