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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1990

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CORRECTIVE TRAINING EMBRACES WIDE RANGE OF ACTIVITIES * * * * *

INTO

CORRECTIVE TRAINING IN HONG KONG AIMS AT TURNING OFFENDERS RESPONSIBLE, CONTRIBUTIVE AND LAW-ABIDING CITIZENS, A LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL MEMBER, MR ANDREW WONG, SAID TODAY (TUESDAY).

CEREMONY SPEAKING AT A CERTIFICATE PRESENTATION

AT SHEK PIK EMBRACED A WIDE PRISON, MR WONG SAID CORRECTIVE TRAINING

RANGE OF COURSES LEADING TO ACTIVITIES, AND ORGANISING EDUCATIONAL

EXTERNAL ACCREDITATION WAS BUT ONE FACET OF THE CORRECTIONAL PROGRAMME.

"THE GRANTING OF CERTIFICATES TO CANDIDATES SIGNIFIES THE

AUTHORITIES OF THE RECOGNITION OF THESE

STANDARDS THE RECIPIENTS ATTAINED IN THEIR STUDIES, HE SAID.

MR WONG SAID ALL OF THE INMATE CANDIDATES WELL

THEIR AND

ΤΟ DETERMINATION

STRIVE FOR ACADEMIC FIELD WAS MOST LAUDABLE.

IN ACHIEVEMENT

HAD PERFORMED VERY THE

"THEIR ACHIEVEMENTS WILL NO DOUBT BE VERY HELPFUL IN SECURING A BETTER JOB AND LEADING A BETTER LIFE WHEN THEY EVENTUALLY RETURN THE COMMUNITY."

ΤΟ

MR WONG TOLD THE INMATES THAT THERE WERE MANY OBSTACLES ALONG NOT THE ROAD TO REFORMATION, AND THAT TO OVERCOME THEM WOULD REQUIRE

BUT ONLY DETERMINATION AND RESOLUTION,

ALSO THE VITAL SUPPORT OF MEMBERS OF THEIR FAMILY.

AT TODAY'S CEREMONY, 64 PRISONERS WERE PRESENTED CERTIFICATES FOR PASSING PUBLIC EXAMINATIONS OFFERED BY THE EXTRAMURAL DEPARTMENT OF THE CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG, THE HONG KONG EXAMINATIONS AUTHORITY, LONDON

OF COMMERCE AND

AND INDUSTRY, EXAMINATION INSTITUTE.

CHAMBERS

PITMAN

THERE WERE THREE DISTINCTIONS AND TWO CREDITS AMONG A TOTAL 71 CERTIFICATES PRESENTED.

OF

NEW GUIDEBOOK ON LABOUR DEPARTMENT SERVICES

THE LABOUR DEPARTMENT HAS RECENTLY PUBLISHED A COMPREHENSIVE TO BOTH EMPLOYERS AND GUIDE TO ITS WIDE-RANGING SERVICES AVAILABLE EMPLOYEES.

SERVICES" THE

PROVIDED

BY

+

ENTITLED "THE LABOUR DEPARTMENT OFFERS YOU ITS NEWLY-REVISED PUBLICATION OUTLINES THE WORK AND SERVICES VARIOUS DIVISIONS OF THE DEPARTMENT.

/THESE SERVICES