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Copies of the pamphlet are available at all district offices and the sub-offices of the Education Department. It is also available at the following E-mail address: [email protected].

Interested parties are welcome to forward their views to the Education Commission Secretariat, ninth floor, Central Government Offices (West Wing), 11 Ice House Street, Central (Fax: 2537 4591).

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Schools reminded of teacher recruitment service

Government-subvented and private primary and secondary schools are encouraged to make use of the Education Department's computer databank of 2,500 current applicants to help fill teaching vacancies in the 1996-97 school year.

Principal Education Officer. Mr C K Tam, said there were more than 2,500 applicants in the databank of the department's Teacher Recruitment Information Office (TRIO), who had so far this year registered their intention to join the teaching profession in the school year starting in September.

Among them, some 1,550 are degree holders from local and overseas universities. About 580 are graduates from the Ilong Kong Institute of Education and another 150 have diplomas from approved post-secondary colleges.

To enlist the assistance of the TRIO databank, all that schools have to do is complete and return to the Education Department a request form specifying their teacher requirements.

Their request will be matched against the qualifications of individual applicants in the TRIO's databank. A list of matching applicants will then be provided to the school.

"Schools will have discretion in arranging interviews with matching applicants and in offering them teaching posts," said Mr Tam.

The relevant forms have been sent to schools via the department's Administration Circular. They are also available upon request from all district education offices and TRIO on 2892 6305 and 2892 5784 or by fax 2892 6304.

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