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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1990

SECONDLY,

UNITS

MR YEUNG SAID THE GOVERNMENT WAS CREATING NEW IN THE VTC THAT WOULD PROVIDE TRAINING IN USEFUL Recent TECHNOLOGIES,

CENTRE

"

SHEET METAL "FOR EXAMPLE, THE RECENTLY ESTABLISHED PRECISION TRAINING

AND THE DESIGN CENTRE FOR APPLICATIONS SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS MEET THE NEEDS OF A MANUFACTURING SECTOR THAT

IN TERMS UP-MARKET GOING

OF INCREASINGLY PERFORMANCE OF ITS END-PRODUCTS,

IS

QUALITY

AND

IN

THE

HE SAID.

HE POINTED OUT THAT OTHER TRAINING AUTHORITIES HAD SLOW TO REACT.

HELP

THE AND THAT OF

PRODUCTIVITY

NOT

BEEN

COUNCIL, THE

FLOWS,"

HE

"WITH OUR CLOTHING INDUSTRY TRAINING AUTHORITY HAS SET UP A CLOTHING TECHNOLOGY DEMONSTRATION CENTRE TO PROMOTE THE IMPROVEMENT OF WORK

SAID.

MR YEUNG

IN

SAID HE WAS PURSUING

THE HIS ADDRESS TO

INITIATIVE

COUNCIL

THE IN

TRAINING

THE THIRDLY,

ANNOUNCED

LEGISLATIVE GOVERNOR OCTOBER 1989, BY PLANNING THE CREATION OF A NEW TECHNOLOGIES FUND.

"THE

BEING DRAFTED.

NECESSARY LEGISLATION FOR THIS SCHEME IS WHEN IT COMES INTO OPERATION IT WILL ENABLE VOCATIONAL TRAINING TO RAISED TO AN EVEN HIGHER LEVEL.

BE

"THE FUND WILL BE USED TO HELP MANAGERS AND TECHNOLOGISTS LEARN THROUGH

SHORT COURSES AND OVERSEAS WORKING PURPOSE-DESIGNED ATTACHMENTS THOSE TECHNOLOGIES THAT HONG KONG NEEDS BUT DOES NOT YET POSSESS, HE ADDED.

**

-

FOR MORE THAT HONG KONG

COMMENTING ON POINTS RAISED BY MEMBERS ON THE NEEDS GRADUATES AND ON THE "BRAIN DRAIN" PROBLEM, MR YEUNG REITERATED IF WE WERE TO MAINTAIN THE GROWTH MOMENTUM OF OUR ECONOMY, WOULD NEED MANY MORE GRADUATES.

RIGHT, IN 1996,

ONLY BE

HE SAID THAT IF THE MANPOWER FORECASTS WERE DEMAND IN THE LABOUR MARKET FOR GRADUATES WOULD SATISFIED BY WHAT WAS LEFT OF OUR EXISTING STOCK OF GRADUATE AND THE EXPANDED OUTPUT OF OUR TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS.

PARTIALLY MANPOWER

CENT

OF

PER "WE ESTIMATE THAT, IN 1996, SOMETHING LIKE 34 FORECAST DEMAND WILL HAVE TO BE MET BY OVERSEAS SUPPLIES OF GRADUATES.

"THIS MEANS THAT HONG KONG WILL STILL BE HEAVILY DEPENDENT OVERSEAS SUPPLIES. THE GOVERNMENT IS THEREFORE DOING ALL IT RETAIN, PRODUCE AND ATTRACT EDUCATED AND QUALIFIED MANPOWER,

ON

CAN TO HE SAID.

BRITISH NATIONALITY

AS REGARDS RETENTION, MR YEUNG SAID THE SCHEME, AND SIMILAR SCHEMES THAT THE UNITED KINGDOM TRIED TO SECURE FOR US, SHOULD BE VERY USEFUL.

GOVERNMENT HAD

THEY WERE DESIGNED TO GIVE THOSE WHO ARE MOST PRONE TO EMIGRATE DEGREE OF CONFIDENCE THEY NEED TO CONTINUE WORKING AND LIVING IN HONG KONG, HE SAID.

THE

/AS REGARDS