“ICAC Student Ambassadors” pledge to spread probity in schools
2009-10-26
More than 1,000 students from about 140 high schools have sworn in as “ICAC Ambassadors” to help spread probity messages among fellow students.
Speaking at the programme launch on Friday (October 23), ICAC’s Community Relations Director Ms Julie Mu Fee-man said that the “ICAC I-Mission Ambassador Programme for Senior Secondary School Students” empowered the participants to promote probity in their schools.
“The term ‘'91I-Mission’ has multiple meanings, referring to ‘'91I’ being the students taking the lead, encouraging their ‘'91Involvement’ and promoting ‘'91Integrity’ among themselves,” she said.
“Introduced for high schools for the first time, this initiative offers students a wider choice of activities under the ‘'91Other Learning Experiences’ heading in the new senior secondary school curriculum.
“We encourage these student ambassadors to arrange integrity-building activities and encourage fellow students to take part.
“The activities would help participants sharpen their communication and organising skills, enhance their civic education learning experience and, most significantly, bring home the importance of adhering to positive values,” said Ms Mu.
The student ambassadors will receive leadership and programme-planning training offered by the ICAC and other youth organisations. They will also visit the ICAC to learn first-hand about Hong Kong’s anti-graft work.
From now to July 2010, the student ambassadors would organise in their respective schools at least two of the ten ICAC-suggested activities and encourage fellow students of all levels to take part. ICAC would provide the ambassadors and their schools wit h advice and support in organising these activities.
These activities include exhibitions, book reports and appreciation sessions on the high-rating “ICAC Investigators 2009” drama series, potentially reaching as many as 80,000 high-schoolers.
About 800 of the ambassadors attended the programme launch, followed by an interactive drama performance, a mini-concert by the pop-group “at 17” and a leadership talk by veteran journalist Mr Li Chan-wing.
Also officiating at the ceremony were Hong Kong Subsidized Secondary Schools Council Chairman Mr Liu Ah-chuen, Hong Kong Association of Heads of Secondary Schools Acting Chairman Dr Yuen Pong-yiu, Hong Kong Liberal Studies Teachers Association Chairman Mr Cheung Yui-fai and Education Bureau’s Chief Curriculum Development Officer Mr Stephen Yip Yam-wing.
Speaking at the programme launch on Friday (October 23), ICAC’s Community Relations Director Ms Julie Mu Fee-man said that the “ICAC I-Mission Ambassador Programme for Senior Secondary School Students” empowered the participants to promote probity in their schools.
“The term ‘'91I-Mission’ has multiple meanings, referring to ‘'91I’ being the students taking the lead, encouraging their ‘'91Involvement’ and promoting ‘'91Integrity’ among themselves,” she said.
“Introduced for high schools for the first time, this initiative offers students a wider choice of activities under the ‘'91Other Learning Experiences’ heading in the new senior secondary school curriculum.
“We encourage these student ambassadors to arrange integrity-building activities and encourage fellow students to take part.
“The activities would help participants sharpen their communication and organising skills, enhance their civic education learning experience and, most significantly, bring home the importance of adhering to positive values,” said Ms Mu.
The student ambassadors will receive leadership and programme-planning training offered by the ICAC and other youth organisations. They will also visit the ICAC to learn first-hand about Hong Kong’s anti-graft work.
From now to July 2010, the student ambassadors would organise in their respective schools at least two of the ten ICAC-suggested activities and encourage fellow students of all levels to take part. ICAC would provide the ambassadors and their schools wit h advice and support in organising these activities.
These activities include exhibitions, book reports and appreciation sessions on the high-rating “ICAC Investigators 2009” drama series, potentially reaching as many as 80,000 high-schoolers.
About 800 of the ambassadors attended the programme launch, followed by an interactive drama performance, a mini-concert by the pop-group “at 17” and a leadership talk by veteran journalist Mr Li Chan-wing.
Also officiating at the ceremony were Hong Kong Subsidized Secondary Schools Council Chairman Mr Liu Ah-chuen, Hong Kong Association of Heads of Secondary Schools Acting Chairman Dr Yuen Pong-yiu, Hong Kong Liberal Studies Teachers Association Chairman Mr Cheung Yui-fai and Education Bureau’s Chief Curriculum Development Officer Mr Stephen Yip Yam-wing.