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VOCATIONAL TRAINING COUNCIL Mass Communications Training Board Invitation for Application: Courses for Personnel of the Mass Communication Industry GUIDELINES FOR THE OUT-CENTRE COURSE SCHEME 1. The Mass Communications Training Board operates an Out-Centre Course (OCC) Scheme whereby the course provider of an approved course would have the benefit of receiving subsidies from the Training Board subject to fulfillment of conditions for subsidies. The Training Board will subsidize the non-profit making course providers and will not take part in the administration and the conducting of courses. 2. The subsidy is in the form of partial reimbursement of the organizing expenses to the course provider upon completion of an approved course. VTC will allocate up to 50% of the total cost as subsidy to the course provider without deducting income, providing that the nature of the proposed OCC is non-profit making and that all expenses are genuinely and reasonably charged. For the luncheon seminar to be held in a hotel, there will not be any subsidy on food beverage of the training sessions under the OCC Scheme. The Training Board will adopt the arbitrary percentage at 40% of the hotel package as venue rental if the hotel can not provide a breakdown of venue cost from the package. The Training Board will consider the OCC proposals on their merits on a case-by-case basis (with the income level to be considered as one of the selection criteria for the OCC Scheme). 3. The Training Board will announce its plan for the Scheme for each financial year (commencing on 1 April and ending on 31 March the next year). Course providers who have appropriate courses on offer are invited to apply. The invitation for other providers will also be announced through the Training Board website .hk. A copy of Application Form is shown in Annex 1 and the downloadable Form is also available at Training Board website. 4. Applications are to be submitted (at least three wee