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complexity of

Government

business.

recent years, the Government

Specifically, in

has placed increasing

emphasis оп management skills, especially for officers

who are expected to fill senior directorate posts in the

future. More than 50

than 50 officers have attended a 3-month

in-house management training programme run by the Senior

Staff Course and another 100 will have completed the

fifth course by June 1986. And here I would like to pay

a tribute to the staff of the Course and to the Advisory

Board headed up by Mr Len Sneddon and Mr F K

In addition, a series of in-house cours

respectively.

Li

on financial management for senior officers is being

designed and the first one is expected to be conducted

later this year.

22.

Finally,

Mrs Rita Fan and Mr Carl

Tong

questioned the need for overseas training for civil

servants. The Government is, of course, mindful of the

higher costs involved in overseas training when compared

with local training. As a matter of policy, overseas

training is provided only when no suitable programmes are

available locally of, if they are available, when there

are insufficient places to meet the demand. Of the

$23.7 million

provided for Overseas training in the

1985-86 Draft Estimates, $8 million (34%) will be used to

finance 171 scholarships under the

Government Training

Scholarship Scheme, mostly in the legal and para-medical

fields where we have encountered persistent localisation