Student Affairs Office

Introduction Staff List

Services

Vacancy

Career & Counseling Services
Finance & Student Activities
General Education
Physical Education

Career & Counseling Services
 
The career and counseling services are provided by a student counselor who is a registered social worker with extensive experience in working with young people.
1.  Counseling Services 
Individual counseling is provided to help students to resolve their problems. Counseling is not aiming at resolving problems for the students but to enhance students’ capabilities in analyzing and solving their problems through a trustful relationship.
2. Group/Mass Program 
A wide range of activities in different themes are provided to facilitate students' personal development e.g. peer counseling, study skills, love and dating, interpersonal relationship etc.
3. Career Services 
Job vacancy and other job related information is co-ordinated and provided to students. Recruitment talks, workshop and career programs are also provided to enhance students career skills.
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Finance & Student Activities
 
A Student Affairs Officer (Administration) is responsible for co-ordinating the services.
1. Student Finance;
A number of finance schemes are co-ordinated by the SAO with an aim to provide financial aids to the needy students. The schemes include the Fee Remission and Student Grants Scheme provided by the VTC, the Non-means Tested Loan Scheme as well as the Student Travel Subsidy Scheme provided by the SFAA. SAO also constantly explores external financial assistance resources for our students.
2. Student Activities;
SAO (A) takes up an advisory role to student bodies like the Students' Union, as well as acts as a bridge between campus administration and students. Furthermore, SAO also gives assistance to student bodies in organizing various kinds of student activities.
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General Education
 
1. An introduction of General Education;
General education (GE) refers to the organized set of activities designed to promote critical-thinking and writing skills, knowledge of the liberal arts, and personal and social responsibilities to meet the changing needs of society, to enhance students’ career opportunities and upgrade their quality of life.  It is that part of the program that teaches both civic responsibility and the value of arts, sciences, and humanities outside formal curriculum. The programs are provided by a Student Affairs Officer (GE).
2. Objectives;

i) To encourage students to keep abreast of current information, views of different issues so as to foster a growing concern for the development of Hong Kong, China and the world;

ii) To help students to develop different kinds of competence, including information collection skills, organization skills, presentation skills, appreciation abilities, explanation and independent thinking skills;

iii) To help students to cultivate an open-minded attitude to respect different opinions and to develop the adaptability of co-operation in community life;

iv) To help students to develop themselves into flexible, articulate persons with ethical sense, professional ethics and integrity, who are able to employ assimilated skills, knowledge, and experiences to solve problems through creative approaches.
3. Functions and Services;
General Education is provided to all full-time students. Attendance certificates will be issued to students upon satisfactory participation in a minimum of six sessions of programs. Student Affairs Officer (General Education) provides students with relevant information and discuss with them on group basis on topics like China studies, era of SAR, human rights and the rule of law, environmental protection, media culture, the third world, etc. Activities are conducted in the forms of open talks/forums, seminars, current affairs seminars, visits, social services, quiz competitions, board displays, video/film shows etc.
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Physical Education
 
The physical education services are provided by 1 PEI (I) and 3 PEI (II)
1. PE Courses;
2 physical education lessons per week are provided to craft level students.;
A wide varieties of P.E.core programs are provided to full-time post-secondary five courses students for their voluntary participation
2. Sport Facilities;
PE instructors help manage campus sport facilities like the basketball court, the badminton court, the tennis court, the physical fitness room, the table-tennis room and the dance room.
3. Sport Events;
Organize campus sport events like the Athletic Meet and the Swimming Gala, as well as co-ordinating the Hong Kong Award for Young People.
4. Advice to Student Bodies;
Provide consultations and guidance to sport clubs and interest clubs in organizing student activities
5. IVE Team;
Coaching and training are provided to representatives of campus and IVE teams for their participation in inter- campuses as well as the Hong Kong Post Secondary Colleges competitions.
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