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In addition, the extra-mural departments of the two universities a wide range of part-time and evening courses, ranging from arts and languages to commerce and engineering.
The polytechnics and the technical institutes offer a range of full-time sandwich, part-time day-release, part-time evening and mixed-mode courses at various levels.
Adult Education Section of the Education Department provides a number of formal and non-formal education courses through the Evening School of Higher Chinese Studies, the Evening Institute and 14 Adult Education and Recreation Centres.
The Hong Kong Productivity
Council and the Hong Kong Management
Association run technical and management courses.
Educational and vocational guidance is available to the students through many channels. Students in the two universities, the two polytechnics and certain post-secondary colleges can approach their student counselling sections for such guidance. The student counsellors in the technical institutes, the careers teachers in secondary schools and the officers of
of the Education Department in primary schools also provide guidance to the students. Similar services are also available at the Careers Advisory Service of the Labour Department, the Careers and Guidance Services Section of the Education Department and the Hong Kong Association of Careers Masters and Guidance Masters.¡
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Article 3
The
Careers. Advisory Service (CAS). of the Labour Department provides a comprehensive careers advisory service through a planned programme of careers guidance
guidance activities.
activities to help young people choose a career best suited to their abilities and interests. Apart from giving careers talks on choosing a career, job interview techniques and employment as well as training opportunities to secondary school students, the CAS also organises careers-oriented activities such as careers exhibition, careers quiz, work orientation programme and other special careers projects. To complement careers services for young people, the CAS further organises annually a training course and a seminar for careers teachers in collaboration with the Education Department.
The CAS publishes pamphlets, job sheets and newsletters, and supplies slide
slide presentations and video/cassette recordings on careers information.
publications are distributed free of charge to schools, youth centres or interested persons. Other careers information materials are available free to members of the public at the four careers information centres of
the CAS. Each centre is equipped with a reference library and an audio-visual unit providing a variety of careers information. Arrangements are made for secondary school students to visit the centres in groups. A free loan service of careers education videos and slide presentations is also available to secondary schools and youth organisations.
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