The Hong
Kong Institution of Engineers (HKIE) – MI division, IVE, The Institution of
Engineering and Technology (IET) and Institution of Mechanical Engineers – Hong
Kong Branch co-organized the technical seminar named “The Roles of Continuous
Education for Career Development in Hong Kong Industry with Successful Case
Sharing” on 6th Jan 2017. Hong
Kong Society for Quality (HKSQ) was one of supporting organizations. Before the start of seminar, I took a photo
with guest speakers.
In the
beginning, Dr. George Lau (Asso. Professor, OUHK) represented IET to present a
welcome speech. He said continuous
education was important for professionals and it was recognized by professional
bodies as CPD.
After
presented souvenir, we took a group photo included organizers, speakers and
supporting organization representatives.
The
first speaker was Ms. Fung Ka Wing (Senior Manager, Qualifications Framework
Secretariat) and her topic named “The Hong Kong Qualifications Framework: A
Platform for Lifelong Learning”. Her
talk included “What is QF”, “Why is it relevant to continuing education and
career development” and “How is it implemented”. There are 142 countries and territories
developed QF in the world.
Then Ms.
Fung explained HKQF was a major initiative by HKSAR Government to support
lifelong learning and to enhance the quality and competitiveness of the
workforce. It included Qualification
Register (QR), Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL), Credit Accumulation and
Transfer (CAT) and Specification of Competency Standards (SCS). Framework governed by Education Bureau (EDB),
Qualifications Framework Secretariat (QFS) and Hong Kong Council for
Accreditation of Academic and Vocational Qualifications (HKCAAVQ). And then Ms. Fung introduced the generic
level descriptors (GLD).
Finally,
she mentioned some application of SCS included HRD & HRM, Benchmarking
& Recognition and Education & Training.
Moreover, she explained QF Award for Learning Experience that each ITAC
selected 3 awardees to receive HK$30,000 or HK$10,000 to respectively joining
non-local or local learning activities relevant to the industry.
The
second speaker was Ms. Fanny Tang (Senior Lecturer, OUHK; Assessment Manager,
RPL Assessment Agency) and her presentation was “Recognition of Prior Learning
(RPL) Assessment for Testing, Inspection and Certification Industry”. She said School of Science and Technology,
OUHK was appointed as Assessment Agency of RPL for Testing, Inspection &
Certification (TIC). The short video was played at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7ZxMHUWxB4.
Then she
introduced the assessment methods included written test, interview, practical
assessment and its combination. Fanny
also briefed the Win-Win situation between employees and employers as follows:
Win for
Employees
-
Gain recognition for qualification
-
Professional development and profile
-
Save money compared with other training program
-
Quicker qualification
Win for Employers
-
Fast tracking staff through the skills recognition
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Reduction in costs of training
-
Efficient in identification of ‘skills gaps’ allowing for more focused
training
Mr.
Torin WT Fung (Senior Vice President, Hong Kong Association for the Advancement
of Science and Technology (HKAAST)) was the third speaker and his topic
entitled “Continuous Learning for Business Startup”. He started his tech company since 2002 and
then M&A by Taiwan listed company.
After that he started his 2nd startup company in 2011 under
Science Park Incubation Scheme and graduated in 2015.
Firstly,
Mr. Torin Fung briefed the different between Technology Driven and Market
Demand concept. He said IP was very
important eventhough you sell your product unsuccessfully, your IP may be
created income from other company.
For
R&D procedures, Torin said it was not as same as University R&D which mainly
focused on theoretical research but startup needed application research.
After
that he shared four critical factors for business startup included Finance,
Innovation, Marketing and Sustainable Business.
His observed many startup companies in the park and found that their
distribution were Innovation ~ 60%, Finance ~ 34%, Marketing ~ 5% and
Sustainable Business <1%.
So that
Torin recommended the priority of critical factors to be Marketing, Innovation,
Sustainable Business and Finance. He also
shared some failure startup cases that were missing Marketing, Finance and
Sustainability. Lastly, he concluded
that startup had no ending unless you gave up.
Another important point was to set the stop loss and return of
investment (ROI), as well as your patent technologies.
The
fourth speaker was Ir. Peter Si (Project Manager, IVE Engineering Discipline
In-service Training) and he presented the topic “The roles of In-service
Training for Hong Kong Industry”. In the
beginning, he briefed Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education (IVE) which
was a member of the Vocational Training Council (VTC).
Then Ir.
Peter Si introduced the “In-service Training” which provided an array of
part-time training programmes to working adults to enhance their professional
capabilities to meet the ever-changing needs of the engineering field. Moreover, their programme was market-oriented
in part-time mode including Professional Diploma, Professional Certificate,
short course and tailor made in-house corporate training programmes. The following diagram showed some examples
(Left photo was BIM – Building Information Modelling which was a hot topic in
construction field!)
Finally,
Ir. Peter Si introduced the Engineering Training Subsidy Scheme (ETSS). The successful applicants would be refunded
upto 60% of the tuition fees and the ceiling upto HK$45,000 per person!!!
The
fifth speaker was Dr. CM Wong (工聯會業餘進修中心) and his topic related to National Vocational Qualification (國家職業資格).
Firstly,
Dr. Wong briefed the characteristics of this kind of qualification. It was separated into Professional level and
Technical level and had 151 items totally.
Professional level was related to public and personal safety and
Technical level was for benchmarking / reference. For more information, please visit the
Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security of the People’s Republic of
China at http://www.mohrss.gov.cn/ .
Finally,
Dr. Wong said the national examination had introduced into Hong Kong since 2004
and it aimed to encourage Hong Kong people working in the mainland and
understand more about China.
The
second part of seminar was industry sharing.
Dr. YC Chau
was the sixth speaker and he shared his “Life-long Learning”. He firstly showed some statistic from Hong
Kong and USA and found that the income was the function of education level and
experience. Then he shared his career 3P
model from Profession (就業), Professionalism (敬業) and Professional (專業).
Dr. YC
Chau said you must be a tree rather than a grass. Then he told us the most
terrible thing was that someone smarter / superior than you and worked harder
than you! (世界上最恐怖的事是比你優秀的人比你還努力!)
Therefore, you should never stop learning.
Then he
shared his career path and explained the Triangle of Success “ASK” that was Attitudes,
Skills and Knowledge.
Dr. YC
Chau shared his “Introspection”. It was
very meaningful. He also said your
future would be appreciated your hard working now. Then he quoted Albert Einstein that “Once you
stop learning, you start dying”. At the
end, Dr. Chau concluded that Academic record was past, Position was existing
but Learning ability represented Future! (學歷代表過去; 職位代表今天; 學習能力代表未來.)
Mr.
Vincent Fung (Executive Director, Kin Yat Holdings) was the seventh speaker and
he would like to share his story to us. He
said manufacturing industry was his “Best School” for lifetime learning. Firsly, he briefed the manufacturing industry
in Hong Kong in 70s. He graduated from Hong Kong Polytechnic College with
Diploma in PIE in late 70s. In late 80s,
industry park in China established under open policy.
Then Mr.
Vincent Fung briefed his Lifelong Learning Journey which led by the evolution
of product and improvement of manufacturing.
Lastly,
he used Bruce Lee statement as conclusion that “Learning is never cumulative;
it is a movement of knowing which has no beginning and no end.”
Dr.
Jackson Tang was the last speaker and his topic entitled “Continuous Learning
vs Conventional Career Path Development”.
He shared that his academic performance was not satisfactory during HKCEE
and then joined VTC (previous called TI).
Then he further studied in UK (Portsmouth) and got the first honor degree. After that he studied MPhil and PhD.
After that he shared his career path and he was still struggling.
Finally, he shared his 2nd startup projects and joined Science Park Incubation scheme successfully.
After
that panel discussion was performed and I record some interest statement below.
i)
國家計劃出的是非常合理, 但執行起來遇到少少困難. (Dr. CM Wong)
ii)
理想好性感, 現實好骨感. (Dr. YC
Chau)
iii)
飛馬座代表希望 (Dr. Jackson Tang)
Reference:
HKIE-MI
Division – http://mi.hkie.org.hk/
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