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of a few years between leaving primary -school before 14 and the age of 16→
- before which few industries are willing
to employ them. This gap should be -filled by more vocational or/pre-
vocational training.
(e) The growth in size and complexity
of Hong Kong industry and the unsatisfactory
development of technical education has left
a serious shortage of mid-level technical
personnel.
(f) The Director Education's statement
that more emphasis on technical education
would be made next year is welcome.
The
dangers of an unbalanced output of technologists,
technicians and craftsmen should be
avoided. It would be a great help to
industry in its planning of Government
would disclose its plans for achieving
a balance in the output of personnel at
these levels.
(8)
There are reasons for the reluctance
of Hong Kong employers to offer first employment to engineering graduates to enable
them to acquire post-graduate practical training. The Hong Kong Joint Group of
the Institution of Civil, Mechanical
and Electrical Engineers is forming a
Graduate Engipéering Training Committee
to solve this problem. The Government
should give prompt and very sympathetic
consideration to the Committee's scheme
The scheme will when presented, including monetary grants
of
to the graduates for training/up to 24
aining/
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