primary, and to $3,000 at Secondary English-speaking
long standing
introduce
schools, as a result of a, decision to implement.
parity of subsidy to equivalent
English and Chinese-speaking schools. The Toasen Por
reached becauver
This decision was that the gross cost per place in a
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Government English Junior school was almost three times
that for a place in an equivalent Government Chinese
primary school. So far as secondary schools were concerned
the ratio was 2.5: 1.the Government regarded it
equitable
only that the difference in cost should be passed
on to those enjoying higher standards of education
In order
provision, that the level of subsidy remained the same
for all levels of the community 98.5% of whom are
Chinese-speaking,
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REACTIONS
Whilst
e expected, Chinese opinion
commended the Government for implementing policy
of parity, because of its equitable treatment of both
the ssepatorate community strongly opposed Jewsonment races in the provision of education, strong opposition Казраства оп
the grounds that it
went unneciasusing great * inar fficient- was aroused among the expatriate community on account
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of both the size and the suddenness of the increases,
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The matter was hotly debated in the local press many individuals wrote to Members of Parliament, a Betitions
were sent to the Secretary of State by the Joint Council
of Parent-Teacher Associations of the English-speaking Schools, and the Association of European Civil Servante,
The
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hecir latter organisation/also) at one point contemplated
taking the unprecedented step of sending a delegation
and
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to London to see the Secretary of State to contest King Kong
Government policy. There was widespread concern,
in particular, that those with more modest incomes
Would suffer real hardship unless aided in some way
by the Government.
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