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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1988

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ON THE SUBJECT OF TRAINING, SIR DAVID POINTED OUT THAT A WIDE OF COURSES WAS OFFERED INTERNALLY TO MEET VOCATIONAL, PROFESSIONAL, MANAGEMENT AND LANGUAGE NEEDS.

THE HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL SENIOR STAFF COURSE IS NOW TO PERMANENT PART OF THE TRAINING SCENE, HE ADDED.

BECOME A

SERVANTS

SIR DAVID NOTED THAT NO LESS THAN 18,000 CIVIL ATTENDED EXTERNAL COURSES EACH YEAR, MAINLY IN HONG KONG BUT ALSO IN 100 OR SO CASES, OVERSEAS.

"THE FACT THAT IT COSTS ABOUT $400 MILLION ΤΟ TRAIN CIVIL SERVANTS EACH YEAR INDICATES THE IMPORTANCE WE ATTACH TO THIS PROGRAMME, HE SAID.

FEW RESIGNATIONS OR RETIREMENTS AT TOP LEVEL

TODAY THE CHIEF SECRETARY, THE HON SIR DAVID FORD,

(WEDNESDAY) RECENT YEARS THERE HAD BEEN TOLD THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL THAT IN

LEVEL OF RELATIVELY FEW RESIGNATIONS OR EARLY RETIREMENTS AT THE TOP THE CIVIL SERVICE.

SIR DAVID SAID WHILE SPEAKING IN THE RESUMED POLICY DEBATE,

THE CIVIL SERVICE RESIGNATIONS AND RETIREMENTS OBVIOUSLY CONTINUED, DID NOT SHARE THE WORST OF THE PROBLEMS OF THE PRIVATE SECTOR.

THE 1,059. "AT THE DIRECTORATE LEVEL, THE PRESENT STRENGTH IS NUMBER OF RESIGNATIONS AND EARLY RETIREMENTS OVER THE PAST FOUR YEARS

IN

AND 1987/88

14 SO FAR IS 29 IN 1985/86, 15 IN 1986/87, 23

IN

1988/89.

LEVEL, THE PRESENT "AT SENIOR MANAGEMENT/SENIOR PROFESSIONAL

AND EARLY RETIREMENT FIGURES STRENGTH IS 1,734 AND THE RESIGNATION

30 SO FAR THIS ARE 55 IN 1985/86, 50 IN 1986/87, 55 IN 1987/88 AND YEAR, SIR DAVID TOLD THE MEETING.

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LESS

HE POINTED OUT THAT THESE PRODUCED AVERAGE PERCENTAGES OF

AND THREE PER CENT FOR THE THAN TWO PER CENT FOR THE DIRECTORATE SENIOR RANKS.

"I AM TOLD THAT THE COMPARABLE FIGURE FOR SENIOR PEOPLE IN

中柙 SIR DAVID REMARKED. PRIVATE SECTOR IS AT LEAST TEN PER CENT,

THE

THE

HE SAID THIS WAS NOT TO SAY THE CIVIL SERVICE WAS ESCAPING

MARKET AND EMIGRATION DUAL PRESSURES OF THE VERY COMPETITIVE LABOUR

COMPLETELY.

/HE POINTED