VI.     STAFF DEVELOPMENT PLAN FOR CLERICAL & SECRETARIAL STAFF

        The clerical/secretarial staff members are encouraged to acquire
        certain job-related skills and knowledge such as Elementary
        Putonghua, Oral English, Basic Chinese and English for Office
        Writing Skills, Computer Literacy and Office Practice, etc. for
        the purposes of work efficiency and effectiveness in the office
        and continuous self-development.  Staff members should take note
        of relevant development programmes offered by the School of
        Continuing Education of our University or other appropriate
        institutions.  Also, appropriate in-house programmes will be
        organized by the Personnel Office from time to time.  Staff
        members who would like to seek financial support from the Short-
        term Staff Development Grant of the University could raise
        requests with their Head of Department/Office before the start
        of the programme.  A grant normally of not more than 2/3 of
        the tuition fee of a relevant course can be approved to support
        the programme.

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