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CAREERS GUIDANCE
Who gives it? Miss Y. L. So has been careers mistress in past years, but when in March 1976, she was promoted to Senior Mistress, Mrs. O. H. Fung took up the responsibility.
What type of guidance can be given? The aim of careers guidance is to make (especially upper-school) students conscious of their aptitudes and abilities and ways in which they can develop them in the right careers. Students who drop out through financial or academic difficulties can be helped to find places in vocational schools or elsewhere. One senior graduate recently sought help when she wavering between the choice of entering the Chinese University or the Hong Kong Polytechnic. Many students seek advice on overseas colleges. Gradually, more and more students are coming to realize that help can be given to them.
How can the advice can be kept up-to-date? Experts in various fields are invited from time to time to give talks at school. Officers from the Youth Employment Advisory Service of the Labour Department gave talk to senior students after last year’s mid-year examinations. Then too, visits are made to various exhibitions and activities. For examples, F. 5 students went to the “Careers 77” Exhibition. Besides these, authorities like the U. S. Consulate the Canadian Commissioner give helpful advice on the suitability of certain schools or universities for students wishing to go overseas to study.
 The past year has been a smooth year and the coming two years are not likely to bring situations and problems too difficult to handle. But the greatest challenge will come when the first lot of students entitled to only 3 years of secondary education have to leave school. Then, careers guidance will assume a sense of greater urgency and increasing importance.
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