Subgroup of the Program for Motivating Qualified and Specialized Talents enhances residents' participation in training and certification

The Subgroup of the Program for Motivating Qualified and Specialized Talents under the Talents Development Committee (hereinafter "SCDT") held its second meeting for the year 2015 on 11th August, chaired by Subgroup Leader Van Iat Kio. During the meeting, Secretariat of the Committee invited Kong Ngan, head of DSEJ's Division of Continuing Education to introduce the subsidy for the certification of the Continuing Education Development Program. After discussion, SCDT agreed to gather data on certification while effective subsidy can help encourage professionals from different sectors in Macao to engage in training and certification.

At the meeting, SCDT also followed up on the definitions of professional certification and qualification provided by the Statistics & Census Service of Macau (hereinafter "DSEC"). SCDT was invited by DSEC earlier to give advice on the questionnaire for the 2016 Population By-census. Data collection related to professional certification and qualification has been added accordingly while clearer definitions of professional certification and qualification have been established. Secretariat of SCDT also offered additional comments based on the needs of the work of the Committee.

Furthermore, to enable residents to more handily obtain systematic licensing information, SCDT is developing a one-stop licensing information platform (hereinafter "Licensing Centre") and the Subgroup of the Program for Motivating Qualified and Specialized Talents also discussed the design and direction of specialized talents related to the licensing centre. Committee members also carried out discussions on the major work of the subgroup in 2015 and in the future, they will continue to collect and collate data on certification subsidy for different professional areas from different government departments in order to analyse possible drawbacks of the current programs, and on the basis of the current "Continuing Education Development Program, carry out study on how to further utilize the program to encourage residents to participate in professional training and obtain professional certificate and licence.

Members of the Subgroup of the Program for Motivating Qualified and Specialized Talents attending the meeting included: Van Iat Kio,Tai Wa Hou, Ip Sio Kai and Sou Chio Fai. Committee members in attendance included: Pang Su Seng and Tai Wong Kuai Leng.