2
CONFIDENT..
The housing plan provides for its redistribution
in new towns in the New Territories. Work is
proceeding on these and their related amenities,
and massive expenditure is being undertaken to
provide fast communications between them and
the old urban area.
EDUCATION
2.
There is already free and more or less
compulsory primary education for all, and
in practice about 80% of primary school
leavers get some sort of secondary education
though by September 1975 subsidised places were
available for just over 50% of primary school
leavers. Under the 1974 White Paper the target
was set for subsidised secondary education in
Forms 1-3 for 100% of the 12-14 age group and
for 40% of the 15-16 year-olds in Forms 4 and 5.
The date set for 100% Form 1 provision was 1979,
but this has now been advanced and by September
'78 there will be subsidised (or where
necessary free) secondary education for all primary
six leavers. To provide the total 306,783 places
needed for full implementation of the White Paper
target 161 schools must be built (many in the New
Towns). Of these, 42 will be under construction
this year.
But until construction of new schools
is completed the additional places will be found