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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 1983

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SCHOLARSHIPS FOR TECHNICAL INSTITUTE STUDENTS

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THE SECRETARY FOR EDUCATION AND MANPOWER, MR KENNETH TOPLEY TODAY (WEDNESDAY) PRESENTED SCHOLARSHIPS TOTALLING $200 000 TO 334 TECHNICAL INSTITUTE STUDENTS.

DURING THE PRESENTATION CEREMONY HELD AT HAKING WONG TECHNICAL INSTITUTE, MR TOPLEY THANKED THE 21 COMMERCIAL, INDUSTRIAL AND COMMUNITY ORGANISATIONS AS WELL AS INDIVIDUALS THAT HAD DONATED THE SCHOLARSHIPS.

MR TOPLEY SAID THAT HE WAS PLEASED TO PRESENT THE SCHOLARSHIPS TO WINNERS OF THE FIVE TECHNICAL INSTITUTES JOINTLY FOR THE FIRST TIME.

+OUT OF 99 000 QUALIFIED APPLICANTS, ONLY 23 000 WERE ADMITTED TO THE FIVE TECHNICAL INSTITUTES FOR THE CURRENT ACADEMIC SESSION FOR VARIOUS MODES OF STUDIES, MR TOPLEY SAID.

+TO MEET THE DEMAND FOR TECHNICAL EDUCATION, HE SAID, +THREE MORE TECHNICAL INSTITUTES ARE BEING PLANNED FOR COMPLETION BY 1986.+

MR TOPLEY RECALLED THAT IN 1979, WHEN HE WAS DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION, HE RECOMMENDED THE SETTING UP OF A CRAFT SKILL COMPETITION AMONG TECHNICAL INSTITUTE STUDENTS.

THE SCHEME HAS SINCE BEEN SUPPORTED BY THE INDUSTRIES. MR TOPLEY CALLED FOR ITS FURTHER EXPANSION FOR THE BENEFIT OF MORE STUDENTS.

DURING THE CEREMONY, THE DIRECTOR OF TECHNICAL EDUCATION AND INDUSTRIAL TRAINING, MR MORRIS MORGAN, ALSO PRAISED THE INDUSTRIALISTS FOR THEIR PART IN PROMOTING HONG KONG'S TECHNICAL EDUCATION.

+WITH THE SETTING UP OF THE VOCATIONAL TRAINING COUNCIL LAST YEAR, MR MORGAN POINTED OUT, +CLOSER CONTACTS BETWEEN TECHNICAL EDUCATORS AND INDUSTRIALISTS HAVE BEEN ESTABLISHED.+

BOARDS FOR EACH OF THE DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS WITHIN THE TECHNICAL INSTITUTES HAD BEEN SET UP AND INDUSTRIAL REPRESENTATIVES FROM THE APPROPRIATE TRAINING BOARDS WOULD SIT ON THEM, HE SAID.

+THIS WILL HELP ENSURE THAT THERE ARE PROPER LINKS BETWEEN THE EDUCATORS AND THE EMPLOYERS OF STUDENTS,+ THE DIRECTOR EXPLAINED.

MR MORGAN SAID THE RE-NAMING OF THE EDUCATION BRANCH AS THE EDUCATION AND MANPOWER BRANCH REFLECTED THE INCREASED EMPHASIS THE GOVERNMENT WAS PLACING ON MANPOWER TRAINING.

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