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60% of the places should be in senior secondary grammar
school forms and 40% in senior secondary technical school
forms, although this ratio may take some time to achieve
in view of the existing preponderence of secondary gran mar
schools. It is the Government's aim that there should be
sufficient places in senior secondary forms in the public
sector for 40% of the 15-16 age group by 1979. In due
course, the Government will consider whether a higher target
percentage should be set for the public sector, though it
should be remembered that the private sector will continue
to offer an alternative for children ineligible for
subsidised education in Forms IV and V and for those who
opt for education in the private sector, so that the overall
percentage of children for whom post Form III secondary
education will be available by 1979 will exceed 40% and
will be at least 55%; this latter figure may well be not
far short of the total of those who want to continue their
education after Form III.
2.9
Senior secondary courses will follow curricula
leading to the Hong Kong Certificate of Education, which
is taken at the end of Form V; and one third of pupils
entering Form IV should obtain places in lower Form VI where
they can prepare for higher education.
2.10
There will be no automatic promotion from junior
secondary to senior secondary forms. Selection and allocation
procedures for the senior secondary course will be conducted
by the Education Department and will be based on the results
of a new public examination (to be called the Hong Kong
Junior Certificate of Education) which will be taken at the
end of the junior secondary course. As far as possible,
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