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"All untrained teachers whether holders of local or non-local degrees - recruited from that date onwards should be subject to this condition of service.

"The above new condition of service should not be applied to untrained teachers so employed before September 1995," Professor Lieh Mak said.

To meet the anticipated training needs consequential to the introduction of the requirement, the ACTEQ recommends to draw up plans to expand both the full-time and part-time PGCE places for the next University Grants Committee triennium commencing in 1998/99.

The ACTEQ believes that movement towards an all- trained profession is desirable at all levels of the profession. Its next tasks are to consider this in relation to non-graduate teachers in both primary and secondary schools.

End/Monday, December 12, 1994

HAD to implement and speed up rural minor works

The Home Affairs Department (HAD) has set targeted annual expenditures for Rural Planning and Improvement Strategy (RPIS) Minor Works Programme amounting to a total of $1.6 billion over a 10-year period.

It would spend $50 million on 15 projects in 1994/95 and a further $150 million on another 15 projects in 1995/96.

This was disclosed by the Director of Home Affairs, Mr Joseph Wong, at the inaugural meeting of the RPIS Minor Works Steering Committee today (Monday).

HAD has taken over the RPIS Minor Works from the Territory Development Department in October this year.

"It was considered that with its established network and its close ties with local communities, the HAD was better placed to supervise the programme with assistance from the Heung Yee Kuk and District Boards in identifying improvement plans which have genuine community endorsement," Mr Wong explained.

From its inception in 1990 up to July this year, 40 projects were completed at a cost of $40 million, Mr Wong noted.