154 | Education
As a public face of the QF, the Government maintains a Qualifications Register (QR), a web-based database that lists the qualifications recognised under the QF and their associated learning programmes. Learners can make use of the QR to map out their own study pathways.
The EDB has so far assisted 17 industries' in setting up Industry Training Advisory Committees (ITACs), which comprise key stakeholders from the industries concerned. The ITACS are tasked with drawing up Specifications of Competency Standards for the relevant sectors, which set out the skills, knowledge and outcome standards required of employees in different functional areas of the respective sectors, and provide a basis for course providers to design training programmes to meet the needs of the sectors.
The EDB also developed a Recognition of Prior Learning mechanism in parallel with the implementation of QF to enable employees to obtain formal recognition for the knowledge, skills and experience they have acquired in the workplace, and facilitate further learning without starting from scratch.
Adult Education
The Financial Assistance Scheme for Designated Evening Adult Education Courses provided subsidies for adult learners attending evening secondary courses at designated centres. Over 1 400 students enrolled in the 2011-12 school year.
Quality Education Fund
The Quality Education Fund (QEF) was established in 1998 with an allocation of $5 billion to support initiatives that promote quality education and schemes that recognise excellence in schools and teachers. Up to the end of the 2010-11 school year, the fund had approved around $3.89 billion for about 8 080 projects. The QEF also identifies good practices for other schools' reference.
School-based Support Services
The EDB provided school-based support services, including those financed by the Education Development Fund (EDF), to 285 secondary schools, 428 primary schools, 25 special schools and 165 kindergartens/kindergarten-cum-child care centres in the 2010-11 school year.
The Regional Education Offices also offer school-based support services to schools in response to the needs of students, teachers, schools and other stakeholders they serve.
Support Measures for Non-Chinese Speaking Students
Various support measures have been put in place to help non-Chinese speaking (NCS) students integrate into the local education system. Such measures include the provision of focused support and an annual grant to 20 designated primary and 10
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