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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 1990

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TECHNICAL AND PROFESSIONAL TRAINING FOR MANAGERIAL

"IT SEEMS LIKELY THAT PEOPLE WITH QUALIFICATIONS, AND PEOPLE WITH APPROPRIATE POSITIONS, WILL BE IN STRONG DEMAND FOR SOME CONSIDERABLE TIME.

"WHEN THESF FINDINGS HAVE BEEN PROPERLY DIGESTED IN TERMS OF WILL BE THEIR IMPLICATIONS FOR SPECIFIC EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMES, THEY

THE UNIVERSITY AND POLYTECHNIC PUT TO

AND COMMITTEE

THE VOCATIONAL TRAINING COUNCIL," HE SAID.

GRANTS

FAR MR YEUNG SAID THAT THE COMMITTEE HAD SO ASSESSED

TRAINED OF EXISTING NUMBERS OF

MANPOWER BY REFERENCE INDUSTRIES, PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONAL LEVELS.

SIZE THE TO VARIOUS

TRENDS, THE

"HAVING REGARD ΤΟ EMPLOYMENT AND DEMOGRAPHIC COMMITTEE WENT ON TO ESTIMATE HOW MANY AND WHAT TYPES OF PEOPLE EACH INDUSTRIAL SECTOR MIGHT EMPLOY BY THE MID-1990's.

ESTABLISHED,

"THE DEMAND SIDE OF THE EQUATION THUS COMMITTEE THEN ASKED ITSELF WHAT THE SUPPLY SIDE WOULD LOOK LIKE.

THE

"THIS IS LARGELY MADE UP OF IMMIGRANTS, RETURNING EMIGRANTS AND STUDENTS, AND THE OUTPUT OF

OUR EDUCATIONAL AND VOCATIONAL TRAINING INSTITUTIONS, IN ADDITION TO AVAILABLE STOCK AS NATURAL WASTAGE AND EMIGRATION.

AFFECTED

BY

"THE COMMITTEE WAS ULTIMATELY TRYING то ASCERTAIN WHETHER THERE IS LIKELY TO BE ANY MIS-MATCH AT VARIOUS EDUCATIONAL LEVELS BETWEEN THE DEMAND AND SUPPLY SIDES OF THE EQUATION, HE SAID.

F

ON WHETHER IT WAS NECESSARY TO DEVELOP A CO-ORDINATED TRAINING

ANSWER PROGRAMME, MR YEUNG SAID THE SHORT

WAS THAT THE GOVERNMENT HAD ALREADY ANTICIPATED THE NEED FOR THIS.

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"IN RESPECT OF EDUCATION, WE PLAN TO PROVISION OF FIRST-YEAR, FIRST-DEGREE PLACES OVER

"WE ALSO PLAN TO UPGRADE THE LEVEL OF OUR TRAINING ACTIVITIES, WORKING MAINLY THROUGH THE COUNCIL.

"HENCE THE TRANSFER OF HIGHER POLYTECHNICS TO THE VTC, THE CREATION IN INDUSTRIAL TRAINING FACILITIES AS THE

DESIGN INTEGRATED CIRCUIT)

DIPLOMA

DOUBLE THE CURRENT THE NEXT SIX YEARS.

EXISTING VOCATIONAL VOCATIONAL TRAINING

WORK FROM THE THE VTC OF SUCH ADVANCED ASIC (APPLICATION SPECIFIC CENTRE, FOR WHICH PROVISION HAS BEEN SOUGHT IN THE 1990-91 DRAFT ESTIMATES OF EXPENDITURE," HE SAID.

ALSO, THERE WAS THE INTENTION TO ESTABLISH A TRAINING FUND TO ENCOURAGE EMPLOYERS TO GIVE MANAGERS THE OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN USEFUL NEW TECHNOLOGIES.

MR YEUNG SAID THE EXPANSION OF DEGREE PLACES AND THE UPGRADING OF THE VOCATIONAL TRAINING SERVICES WERE BEING CO-ORDINATED AND

STEERING MONITORED BY A

GROUP UNDER HIS CHAIRMANSHIP, PROGRESS WAS BEING MADE.

AND

GOOD

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