创立工作实习办公室ExecutiveSummary.PDFVIP

-1- Part C Project Overview Project Title (in English): Project Title (in Chinese): Establishment of an Industrial Attachment Office 創立工作實習辦公室 Executive Summary (Please provide, within this page, an executive summary of the project.) Established since 1971, Hong Kong Shue Yan University is committed to producing informed and skilled graduates who have the self-reliance, competence and attributes to succeed in their chosen career path and to work for the betterment of the community. Our constant concern for our graduates’ employability has already led to the provision of industrial attachments that meet professional requirements in such vocationally oriented degree programmes as Counselling, Journalism and Social Work. In light of these successful experiences, the University plans to expand industrial attachment courses that are discipline-specific and credit-bearing into all the existing degree programmes (Appendix I). Four strategic areas have been selected for the development of industrial attachment courses that will be suitable for our students: 1) arts and culture, 2) business and social enterprise, 3) research and education, and 4) social and community services. A total of 15 industrial attachment courses will be established or enhanced with comprehensive pre- and post-attachment support as well as increased provision of well-organized industrial attachments from various external agencies (Appendix II). It is against this background that a Director of Industrial Attachment has been appointed to prepare for the establishment of an Industrial Attachment Office dedicated to realising the planned development. Subject to the award of QESS funding, the establish