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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1986

+THE DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION ENVISAGES THAT 244 STUDENT GUIDANCE OFFICERS WILL BE IN POST BY 1989, THROUGH A PHASED RECRUITMENT PROGRAMME, TO ACHIEVE FULL COVERAGE OF ALL PRIMARY SCHOOLS, HE SAID.

ON WHETHER CONSIDERATION WOULD BE GIVEN TO RECRUITING SOCIAL WORK DIPLOMA HOLDERS WHO HAVE BEEN TRAINED IN PROVIDING COUNSELLING SERVICE TO HELP EASE THE MANPOWER SHORTAGE, MR CHAMBERS POINTED OUT THAT THE RESPONSE TO THE LATEST RECRUITMENT EXERCISE CONDUCTED BY THE DEPARTMENT HAD BEEN VERY ENCOURAGING.

+A TOTAL OF 347 APPLICATIONS HAS BEEN RECEIVED, COMPARED WITH 158 IN 1984 AND 242 IN 1985. THERE IS, THEREFORE, NO NEED TO RECRUIT SOCIAL WORK DIPLOMA HOLDERS TO FILL THESE POSTS IN THE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT, HE SAID.

MORE VOCATIONAL TRAINING PLACES OFFERED

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THE TOTAL CAPACITY OF THE EIGHT TECHNICAL INSTITUTES MANAGED BY THE VOCATIONAL TRAINING COUNCIL WILL REACH 66 800 IN ALL MODES OF STUDY WHEN THE CHAI WAN TECHNICAL INSTITUTE IS OPENED NEXT SEPTEMBER.

THIS WAS STATED BY THE HON CHAN KAM-CHUEN IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY) WHEN TABLING THE REPORT OF THE VOCATIONAL TRAINING COUNCIL FOR THE YEAR ENDED MARCH 31, 1986 IN HIS CAPACITY AS THE COUNCIL'S CHAIRMAN,

MR CHAN PAID TRIBUTE TO THE FORMER CHAIRMAN, DR FRANCIS TIEN, FOR HIS OUTSTANDING LEADERSHIP IN THE PAST FOUR YEARS DURING WHICH HE HAD GUIDED THE COUNCIL THROUGH ITS FORMATIVE YEARS AND BROUGHT MANY IMPORTANT PROJECTS TO COMPLETION.

+PROBABLY, THE MOST NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENT OF THESE HAS BEEN THE ESTABLISHMENT OF INDUSTRIAL TRAINING CENTRES HOUSED IN THE KOWLOON BAY AND KWAI CHUNG TRAINING CENTRE COMPLEXES, HE SAID.

MR CHAN POINTED OUT THAT ALREADY THOUSANDS OF YOUNG PEOPLE HAD COMPLETED BASIC TRAINING THERE AND HAD IMMEDIATELY BEEN ABSORBED INTO THE MANUFACTURING AND SERVICE INDUSTRIES.

HE ALSO NOTED THAT THE PRECISION TOOLING TRAINING CENTRE AND THE INSURANCE TRAINING CENTRE STARTED OPERATION IN SEPTEMBER THIS YEAR AND ANOTHER CENTRE FOR THE TRAINING OF ELECTRONIC DATA PROCESSING PERSONNEL WOULD TAKE IN ITS FIRST TRAINEES IN A FEW MONTHS' TIME.

JEWELLERY .............

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