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(10) Extended day system

(11) Fee remission

(12) Flotation

(13) Government secondary school

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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).

there are more classes than actual classrooms in a school. Use is made of the special rooms as form bases. In this manner a more intensive use of all teaching areas is obtained e.g. a standard plan asymme- trical school has 24 classrooms; 11 special rooms and 1 assembly hall, giving 36 teaching areas in which it is proposed to operate 30 classes. This permits up to an extra 25% enrolment.

wholly operated and financed by Government.

(14) Hong Kong Junior Certificate- proposed examination to be taken

of Education

(15) Junior English school

(16)

Linked primary schoo1

(17) New Towns

(18)

Practical subjects

by pupils at the end of Form III. It will serve the two functions of selecting pupils for promotion to Form IV in Government and aided secondary schools and as standard of attainment for those pupils leaving school.

primary school for English speaking children.

a primary school which acts as a feeder school for a particular secondary school.

these are the three New Towns of Shatin, Tsuen Wan and Tuen Mun in the New Territories. They will eventually house 1.8 million people.

such as woodwork, metalwork, integrated woodwork, metalwork

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