Establishment of "Elderly Care Service Industry Training Advisory Committee"

On 1st Feb 2012, the Education Bureau established the Elderly Care Service Industry Training Advisory Committee to facilitate the implementation of QF in the industry.

After industry-wide consultation on the draft from March to June 2001 organised by the ICT Industry Training Advisory Committee (ITAC), the SCS Drafting Subcommittee directed the Professional Writer to appropriately revise the draft based on comments collected during the consultation period, and the revised version was endorsed by the ICT ITAC. The first version of SCS for the Communications and Information Services branch is now available for downloading from this website.

The Retail ITAC hosted a briefing session on 9 November 2011 to introduce the QF, programme accreditation and Qualifications Framework Support Schemes to the industry.

Qualifications Framework (QF) Secretariat organized an industry-wide consultation session for Elderly Care Service on 2nd November 2011. About 100 representatives from the sector attended the successful event. All those present expressed their valuable views and positive support to QF launch for the sector.

The Deputy Executive Director of VTC, Miss Annie HO, and the Principal Assistant Secretary for Education, Miss Linda SO, officiated at the RPL Kick-off Ceremony for the Automotive and the Jewellery industries on 24 Oct 2011. The RPL mechanism for both industries will be launched on 15 Nov 2011 to enable employees to receive formal recognition of the knowledge, skills and experience already acquired