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"This would eliminate the adverting effect which students may have when approaching school social workers," the study noted.

The Phase II study, with focus on the supporting system for working youth, will commence shortly under the auspices of the Commission.

End/Monday, July 31, 1995

Overseas training for immigration officers

The Immigration Department is sending six of its officers to Europe and the United States for training in August.

Chief Immigration Officers, Mr Wong Shiu-pui and Mrs Shiu Shiu Sik-ling, and acting Chief Immigration Officers, Mr Lam Hoo-cheung and Mr Liu Kwok- keung, will leave for the United Kingdom, Italy and France for an eight-week study of the immigration procedures in those countries.

Chief Immigration Officers, Mr Cheng Ping-yat and Ms Tammy Keung, will spend four months studying programme and project development at the University of California, Berkeley, USA.

At a briefing before their departure, the Director of Immigration, Mr Laurence Leung, said he attached great importance to officers receiving overseas training and establishing contacts with and learning from the experience of foreign immigration services.

The study trips would assist officers in self development and enable them to have a better understanding of the different social and cultural background of overseas visitors whom they would meet in the course of their duties.

Mr Leung, urging the officers to make the best use of the opportunity to widen their horizon and to achieve self enrichment, emphasised that the department fully recognised the long term benefits that could be achieved through these overseas trips and courses.