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Applicants are required to provide documentary proof of their qualification. Priority will be given to those recommended by the elderly homes in which they are serving. The course fee is $1,600 per trainee.

Copies of invitation have already been sent to elderly home operators, inviting them to recommend suitable candidates for the course.

Those interested to take up a job in elderly homes may also forward their applications to the Licensing Office of Residential Care Homes for the Elderly at Room 2354, 23rd floor, Wu Chung House, 213 Queen's Road East, Wan Chai.

7414.

For enquiries, please call the licensing office on 2961 7211 or 2834

End/Saturday, May 6, 1995

Good example important for children's language proficiency

Education provides children with formal language training. But it is important also for parents, teachers, friends and neighbours to provide a good example when speaking to children.

Mrs Patten said this at the opening ceremony of the Eighth Children's Month today(Saturday).

"We all have a role to play in contributing to their development and learning through our conversation with them," she said.

Mrs Patten said she was pleased to see the organiser, the Hong Kong Council of Early Childhood Education and Services had chosen "Language Proficiency" this year as the theme for the event.