Talents committee promotes ‘elite nurturing’

The Talents Development Committee’s task force subgroup promoting its “Elites Nurturing Plan” held a meeting last Friday. There it listened to Melco Crown Entertainment’s chief human resources officer introduce the gaming operator’s demand and its suggestions for the cultivation of industry talents.
At the meeting, Melco Crown’s executive vice president and chief of human resources and corporate social responsibility officer, Ms Akiko Takahashi, introduced to committee members the operator’s training plans and internal promotion opportunities.
In addition, the supgroup briefed its members about the admission of the subsidy scheme for the University of Cambridge’s Global Leaders Master Course. Moreover, members discussed the Committee’s plan to cooperate with Portuguese universities and UNESCO.
The subgroup, led by Wu Zhi Liang and joint by local universities’ rectors, recognized that “promoting the talent cultivation programs would help the MSAR government enhance the quality of talent training,” as stated in a press release by the committee. It further pledged to collect information on each government department’s training of youths, and to strengthen local universities’ collaborative programs with world’s top universities under the “Elites Nurturing Plan.”