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TUREDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1982

+EACH TOY IS DESIGNED FOR A SPECIFIC PURPOSE AND CATEGORISED FOR DIFFERENT GROUPS ACCORDING TO THEIR NEEDS, DR KO SAID.

CHILDREN REGISTERED WITH THE TOY LIBRARY SERVICE MAY BORROW

TOYS FOR UP TO TWO WEEKS.

PARENTS WILL PLAY A MAJOR ROLE IN ENCOURAGING THE CHILDREN TO JOIN AND WILL BE GIVEN A HOMEWORK' CHART TO RECORD THE STAGES OF THE CHILDREN'S DEVELOPMENT UNDER THE PROGRAMME.

NOTE TO EDITORS:

A PREVIEW OF THE TOY LIBRARY WILL BE HELD ON THURSDAY (OCTOBER 28).

YOU ARE INVITED TO COVER THE PREVIEW STARTING AT 2.30 PM. THE TOY LIBRARY IS AT THE ARRAN STREET CHILD ASSESSMENT CLINIC, MONG KOK.

MORE TECHNICAL INSTITUTE GRADUATES INFUSED INTO INDUSTRY

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SOME 8 323 STUDENTS GRADUATED FROM THE FIVE TECHNICAL INSTITUTES MANAGED BY THE VOCATIONAL TRAINING COUNCIL THIS YEAR, GIVING A BOOST TO HONG KONG'S INDUSTRY BY PROVIDING IT WITH TRAINED MANPOWER.

THE FIGURE REPRESENTS AN INCREASE OF 16.6 PER CENT OVER LAST YEAR'S FIGURE OF 7 140 STUDENTS WHO GRADUATED FROM THE INSTITUTES.

REVEALING THIS TODAY (TUESDAY), A COUNCIL SPOKESMAN SAID 1979 OF THE GRADUATES ATTENDED FULL-TIME COURSES, 3 073 ATTENDED PART-TIME DAY-RELEASE COURSES WHILE THE REMAINING 3 271 ATTENDED CLASSES RUN IN THE EVENING.

THE SPOKESMAN NOTED THAT THE STUDENT RATIO BETWEEN TECHNICIAN AND CRAFT GRADUATES WAS 4 TO 6 OR 3 358 TECHNICIANS AND 4 965 CRAFT GRADUATES RESPECTIVELY,

THE FIVE TECHNICAL INSTITUTES ARE MORRISON HILL, KWAI CHUNG, KWUN TONG, HAKING WONG AND LEE WAI LEE. TOGETHER THEY OFFER A RANGE OF 224 COURSES BELONGING TO 12 DIFFERENT DISCIPLINES.

THE DISCIPLINES COVER HOTEL-KEEPING AND TOURISM STUDIES, COMMERCIAL STUDIES, CONSTRUCTION, ELECTRICAL AND MECHANICAL ENGINEERING, GENERAL STUDIES, INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY, PRINTING TEXTILE INDUSTRIES, MARINE AND FABRICATION, CLOTHING INDUSTRIES AND DESIGN, AND THEY CATER TO REQUIREMENTS WITHIN THE INDUSTRIAL, COMMERCIAL ́AND SERVICE SECTORS.

ACCORDING TO THE SPOKESMAN, THE PART-TIME DAY-RELEASE AND EVENING GRADUATES NORMALLY ATTENDED COURSES RELEVANT TO THEIR FULL-TIME EMPLOYMENT, THUS ENHANCING THEIR PROFESSIONAL QUAL IF ICATION AND PROMOTION PROSPECTS.