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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 1991

SECOND READING OF THE

MOVING THE

(AMENDMENT} APPRENTICESHIP

THE HON K.Y. BILL 1991, THE SECRETARY FOR EDUCATION AND MANPOWER,

OF YEUNG, SAID THE BILL SOUGHT TO REPLACE REFERENCES TO THE DIRECTOR

ΤΟ REFERENCES

A TECHNICAL - EDUCATION AND INDUSTRIAL TRAINING WITH DIRECTOR OF APPRENTICESHIP TO BE APPOINTED BY THE GOVERNOR.

THE INTENTION WAS TO APPOINT THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE AS THE DIRECTOR OF APPRENTICESHIP, HE SAID.

VTC

IT COUNCIL,

TOOK THE AND THE

MR YEUNG SAID WHEN THE VTC WAS ESTABLISHED IN 1982, OVER MOST OF THE FUNCTIONS OF THE HONG KONG TRAINING TECHNICAL EDUCATION

OF THE EDUCATION DIVISION INDUSTRIAL TRAINING BRANCH OF THE LABOUR DEPARTMENT.

DEPARTMENT

"TWO SERVICES, HOWEVER, REMAINED OUTSIDE THE SCOPE OF THE

TRAINING FOR APPRENTICESHIP

NAMELY, DISABLED.

TRAINING

AND

VOCATIONAL

VTC,

THE

"IN ORDER FOR THESE SERVICES TO BE DELIVERED, A NEW DEPARTMENT CALLED THE TECHNICAL EDUCATION AND INDUSTRIAL TRAINING DEPARTMENT, WAS CREATED.

"THE

DIRECTOR OF THAT DEPARTMENT WAS ALSO MADE DIRECTOR OF THE VTC HE SAID.

THE EXECUTIVE

SERVANTS

MR

YEUNG SAID THE VTC WAS INITIALLY STAFFED BY CIVIL POSTED TO IT ON SECONDMENT, AND LATER ON BY STAFF DIRECTLY EMPLOYED ON THE COUNCIL'S TERMS.

NUMBER OF FOLLOWING A ΤΟ TRANSFER ΤΟ

AS THIS MIXED STAFF SITUATION HAD GIVEN RISE TO A INTRACTABLE MANAGEMENT PROBLEMS, THE GOVERNMENT DECIDED, RECENT REVIEW, TO INVITE THE CIVIL SERVANTS INVOLVED THE EMPLOYMENT OF THE VTC.

THAT

SERVANTS

CIVIL

INVOLVED "ASSUMING

THE MAJORITY OF THE

OF THE WOULD TAKE UP THIS INVITATION AND CROSS OVER TO THE SERVICE

NOT CURRENTLY VTC, IT WOULD MAKE SENSE FOR THOSE SERVICES THAT ARE VESTED IN THE VTC TO BE VESTED IN THE VTC," THE SECRETARY SAID.

MR

YEUNG SAID THE VTC HAD AGREED TO ASSUME RESPONSIBILITY PROVIDING THESE SERVICES. HENCE THESE FOUR AMENDING BILLS.

FOR

"OF COURSE, THOSE CIVIL SERVANTS WHO DO NOT WISH TO TRANSFER TO THE EMPLOYMENT OF THE VTC MAY CHOOSE TO REMAIN AS CIVIL SERVANTS.

AS

"ON THE ASSUMPTION THAT AT LEAST SOME WOULD ELECT TO REMAIN CIVIL SERVANTS, IT WILL BE NECESSARY TO RETAIN THE TECHNICAL EDUCATION RESIDUAL PERSONNEL AND INDUSTRIAL TRAINING DEPARTMENT, BUT ONLY FOR MANAGEMENT FUNCTIONS," HE SAID.

WHEN

THE

1982,

ENABLING ITS

ORDINANCE AND INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION

VTC WAS FORMED IN PROVIDED THAT THE DIRECTOR OF TECHNICAL TRAINING SHOULD BE THE VTC'S EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, MR YEUNG NOTED.

/SINCE THE