Better career guidance planned
January 15, 2014
The Government plans to enhance career guidance services to enable students to make better life choices, Chief Executive CY Leung says.
Delivering his 2014 Policy Address today, Mr Leung said the Education Bureau will expand its Career Guidance Team, providing funding for an additional teacher in each public secondary school to introduce life planning education elements, starting from the 2014-15 school year.
Also starting from the next school year, the Government will allocate recurrent funding to the Vocational Training Council to provide industrial attachment opportunities benefiting more than 9,000 students, and will launch a pilot training and support scheme through the council to recruit talent for industries through apprenticeship programmes with clear career progression pathways, helping 2,000 trainees.
It will also encourage greater business participation and engage more community resources in the Business-School Partnership Programme, and will allocate more resources to NGOs to enhance career guidance for secondary students in collaboration with schools.
