AROUND-the-clock hotline has been set up by the Education Department to answer any queries students or their parents might have about the Form Six Admission Procedure.
The hotline, 891-0088, is an automatic answering service which gives details of the different admission stages, like when students should register for their own schools and for other schools.
Available in English and Cantonese, the hotline will be in operation until the last day of the admission scheme. The service is free-of-charge but limited to tone system telephones.
Mr Tsui See-ming, Assistant Director (Public Sector Reform), hopes the new service will help to lessen students' confusion and anxiety over the admission scheme.
Mr Tsui said the Education Department released the information on the admission scheme earlier this year to give HKCEE candidates more time to study the procedure.
Booklets on matriculation courses and the admission procedure have been distributed to schools and student guidance centres.
The department has also started to mail the relevant information to private candidates through the Hongkong Examinations Authority.