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Paper on education service centres tabled

Many of the Education Department's education service centres enjoy a high utilisation rate, with the Advisory Inspectorate Teaching and Resource Centre (Hong Kong) cum Teachers' Centre in North Point attracting the highest number of 88,370 visitors in the 1995-96 school year.

It is followed by the Perth Street Special Education Service Centre (85,000 visitors), the Career Education Centre and Guidance Teacher Resource Centre (18,829 visitors) and the Fung Hon Chu Gifted Education Centre (14,974 visitors).

The above statistics are contained in an information paper on the education service centres, which was noted by the Board of Education at today's (Monday's) meeting.

Board members also noted that four new education service centres has started to operate during 1995-96. They were the TOC Resource Centre (Hong Kong Region), Hong Kong Teachers' Centre (Cheung Sha Wan) and Drug Education Resource Centre, TOC Resource Centre (New Territories Region), and Fung Hon Chu Gifted Education Centre.

Members learned that the 28 education service centres operated by the Education Department provide a range of services to teachers and students with a wealth of teaching resources.

While recognising the advantage of centralising the existing centres, the information paper noted that it would be a more pragmatic approach to centralise only those centres where it is convenient to do so and preserve those with a regional set-up.

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Water storage figure

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Storage in Hong Kong's reservoirs at 9 am today (Monday) stood at 96.6 per cent of capacity or 566.267 million cubic metres.

This time last year the reservoirs contained 579.013 million cubic metres of water, representing 98.8 per cent of capacity.

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