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of fee remission will continue.
3.15
The 1965 White Paper recommended that there should
be no wide variation in the level of fees charged, and this
general principle is still endorsed. However, the Board of
Education will be asked to conduct a thorough review of the
present fee structure bearing in mind particularly the need
to maintain revenue from fees at a proper level and the
desirability of rationalizing the present system. It would
be premature to propose any changes in the present fee
system until such a review has taken place.
3.16
Costs
In considering the cost of the new policy now outlined,
it is necessary to assess capital and recurrent expenditure
separately, and to differentiate between the various types
of education to be provided. Whatever cost projections are
used, many uncertain factors may affect them. For example,
general rises in costs of building and of teachers salaries
and variations in fees and fee remissions, will have an
important influence on net costs. It should be stressed that
the estimates in Tables II and III are based on mid-1974 prices.
3.17
Capital costs
The estimated capital costs of the secondary schools
which are estimated to be required to meet the new targets,
as detailed in para. 3.12 and 3.13, are given below in
Table II.
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