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SUMMARY OF CONCLUSIONS & RECOMMENDATIONS :

TETOC's

9.

recruitment

I was impressed with the extent to which

services are appreciated both by the Education Department of the

Hong Kong Government and by the Polytechnic, and with the awareness

on the part of those concerned that TETOC can meet their staffing

needs more effectively than any alternative.

Nevertheless, there

is pressure to set up a specialist unit to handle technical

education appointments for the Education Department in the

recruitment section of the Hong Kong Government London Office, and

but for the fortunate timing of my visit, this would almost

certainly have gone ahead. If recruitment for government posts

were transferred from TETOC to this proposed new unit, the

Polytechnic would expect to be obliged to make a similar change.

10. There is little doubt that the recruitment needs of the

Education Department and the Polytechnic are best served by

facilities which, for a number of reasons, TETOC is in a unique

position to supply. It is also in the interests of technical

teaching institutions served by TETOC in other parts of the world

that we should continue to recruit for Hong Kong, because the

additional opportunities and applications arising from it improve

the viability of the recruitment service as a whole. Conversely,

recruitment for other countries would be adversely affected if

TETOC ceased to deal with posts in Hong Kong. It is accordingly

recommended that TETOC should make every effort to continue its

efforts to provide the highest possible standard of recruitment

service for Hong Kong.

11. One of the items in my brief was discreetly to explore