APPENDIX 2
GLOSSARY OF TERMS USED IN THE WHITE PAPER
(1) Aided secondary school
(2) Assisted private secondary
school
(3) Asymmetrical school
(4) Bisessional operation
(5) Bought place
(6) Capital expenditure
(7) Curriculum
(8) Curriculum development
committee
(9) Estate type school
(10) Extended day system
(11) Fee remission
-operated by a voluntary body and mainly financed by Government through the unified Code of Aid.
-operated by a voluntary body and in receipt of Government financial recurrent assistance in the form of classroom allowance and supplementa- tion of the teachers' salaries.
a school in which the class structure is such that most of the classes are in Forms I to III, e.g. a school of 30 classes with 24 classes in Forms I to III and 6 classes in Form IV and above. This type is operated by voluntary bodies and is in receipt of the same Government recurrent financial aid as a private non-profit-making secondary school.
- two schools operating in one school building' one school uses the building in the morning and the other in the afternoon.
-the Government subsidizes a place in a private secondary school so that the pupil is only re- quired to pay the same fee and is eligible for the same privileges in respect of fee remission as a pupil in a Government or aided secondary school.
the cost of providing school buildings, furniture and equipment.
- course of study.
- a committee comprising a cross-section of the educational field appointed by the Director of Education to advise him on the development of the curricula in schools.
- a standard plan secondary school built by the Government as a part of the overall construction of a housing estate, and subsequently handed over to sponsors to operate.
an arrangement which permits a staggering of classes throughout the day i.e. some classes begin and end the school day before some other classes but all classes are in session at the same time for a greater part of the day.
The Government, and not the pupil, pays the fees to the school (this ensures that no pupil awarded a place is deprived of the opportunity to follow a secondary school course in the public sector through inability to pay the school fees).
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