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Primary education
Today's policy is to provide a place (at public expense) for every child wanting one by the school year 1970-71. This has meant fair numbers of new schools and extension of grants in aid to a variety of přivate schools already in existence. Present figures indicate that the target is likely to be met.
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Primary education is stultified by the demands of the Secondary School Entrance Examination. This is a half-day academic test in English, Chinese and Arithmetic, which is the gateway to the Government and aided schools, where fees are heavily subsidized. The result of the test is that teachers and students alike concentrate on the three subjects of the Examination. Any attempt to broaden the scope is resisted furiously by teachers, students and by papaeba,
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At present some 17% of children completing Primary school enter Government or aided schools through the competitive Secondary School Entrance Examination. further 50 60% enter private secondary schools.
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There are four government secondary technical schools for boys and one for girls. These are as academic in approach as the grammar schools and their students aspire to University education in non-technical subjects.
There is, in addition, a very small number of technical schools administered, by Church bodies. The Aberdeen Technical School (Roman Catholic) is among the more genuine and successful.
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Vocational classes have not yet really got off the ground as, despite the White Paper, Government has only this last few months agreed to subsidize any of the existing attempts which have been made by Church sponsors. There is still no agreement on qualifications and supply of teachers, and experiments are on a very small scale.
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The situation at the present time, therefore, is that about 70% of all children Murakalli
enter a secondary school of some sort on the completion of primary schooling.
Of these about a quarter have gained places in government or aided schools through the academic test and so receive an expensive education at a small fee. The remainder attend private schools with much higher fees and very variable standards.
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