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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1987

VOCATIONAL TRAINING COUNCIL MAKES GOOD PROGRESS

THE VOCATIONAL TRAINING COUNCIL (VTC) HAS CONTINUED ΤΟ MAKE GOOD PROGRESS IN FULFILLING ITS FUNCTIONS OF PROVIDING TECHNICAL EDUCATION AND INDUSTRIAL TRAINING TO MEET THE DEVELOPING NEEDS OF HONG KONG'S INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE IN THE YEAR ENDING MARCH

1987, THE HON K.C. CHAN SAID TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

MR CHAN, CHAIRMAN OF THE VTC, WAS TABLING TO THE ANNUAL REPORT IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

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HE NOTED THAT ON THE TECHNICAL EDUCATION FRONT, THE FIRST TWO TECHNICAL INSTITUTES PLANNED AND BUILT BY THE VTC AT SHA TIN AND TUEN MUN OPENED FOR CLASSES IN SEPTEMBER LAST YEAR WHILE THE LATEST INSTITUTE AT CHAI WAN STARTED TO ENROL STUDENTS IN SEPTEMBER THIS YEAR, THUS BRINGING THE TOTAL NUMBER OF INSTITUTES TO EIGHT.

"BY SEPTEMBER 1988, THE TOTAL NUMBER OF FULL-TIME AND PART-TIME PLACES IN TECHNICAL INSTITUTES WILL BE ABOUT 11,500 AND 50,500 WHICH WILL REPRESENT AN INCREASE OF SOME 158 PER CENT AND 41 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY SINCE THE VTC WAS ESTABLISHED AND TOOK OVER THE RESPONSIBILITY FOR ESTABLISHING AND OPERATING TECHNICAL INSTITUTES.

"BESIDES THE INCREASE IN THE NUMBER OF PLACES, THE INSTITUTES ARE NOW ABLE TO OFFER COURSES IN NEW AREAS OF TECHNOLOGY WHICH ARE VITAL TO HONG KONG'S FURTHER DEVELOPMENT, MR CHAN POINTED OUT.

"THE VTC ALSO HOPES TO BEGIN CONSTRUCTION WORK FOR THE ANNEXES ΤΟ KWAI CHUNG TECHNICAL INSTITUTE AND THE KWUN TONG TECHNICAL INSTITUTE AND THE REPROVISIONING OF THE MORRISON HILL TECHNICAL INSTITUTE FACILITIES.

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"WHEN THESE PROJECTS ARE COMPLETED IN LATE 1988 OR EARLY BOTH THE TEACHING FACILITIES AND STUDENT AMENITIES OF ALL THE OLDER PRE-VTC INSTITUTES WILL BE BROUGHT TO A LEVEL COMPARABLE ΤΟ THOSE PROVIDED FOR IN THE NEW ONES, THAT IS, TO THE LEVEL NEEDED IF ARE TO OPERATE ADEQUATELY THE COURSES WHICH THEY NOW OFFER, HE CONTINUED.

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TURNING TO THE INDUSTRIAL TRAINING FRONT, MR CHAN SAID THREE NEW TRAINING CENTRES THE ELECTRONIC DATA PROCESSING, THE INSURANCE, AND THE PRECISION TOOLING COMMENCED OPERATION IN THE YEAR 1986/87 WHILE THE JEWELLERY INDUSTRY TRAINING CENTRE HAD RECENTLY BEGUN OFFERING COURSES.

"WHEN THE NEW SEAMEN'S TRAINING CENTRE AND THE BANKING TRAINING CENTRE START COURSES IN THE NEXT FEW MONTHS, THE TOTAL NUMBER OF TRAINING CENTRES ESTABLISHED BY THE VTC WILL BE 16 AND THE TOTAL NUMBER OF TRAINING PLACES OFFERED ANNUALLY IN THESE CENTRES WILL BE ABOUT 12,000 FULL-TIME AND 5,000 PART-TIME," HE ADDED.

AT THE REQUEST OF GOVERNMENT, THE VTC HAD ALSO STARTED TO ADMINISTER FOR THE GOVERNMENT A TRAINING SCHEME UNDER WHICH ELECTRONIC ENGINEERS ARE SENT OVERSEAS FOR TRAINING IN THE VITALLY IMPORTANT FIELD OF APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS.

MR CHAN HOPED THE GOVERNMENT WOULD CONTINUE TO GIVE ENTHUSIASTIC SUPPORT TO THE VTC IN FUTURE то HELP IT MEET THE EVER-CHANGING MANPOWER REQUIREMENTS

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