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Review of higher education
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ALLANDE - 32 AND SHEA, JA
I announced at this time last year that a working party
was engaged in preparing a report on the future development of senior
secondary and tertiary education, and that this might be a suitable
subject of a Green Papon before any final decision was taken.
It will be issued shortly. There has been much public concern about
the proposal in the 1974 White Paper that subsidised places in Forms
IV and V should be provided for only 40% of the school population.
Although this target would mean that the present proportion of the
population which proceeds to subsidised senior secondary education would
be more than doubled, it may be too low for our requirements during the
1980s. The Green Paper will, therefore, take a comprehensive look at
a whole range of opportunities for the Form III leaver to continue his
education in senior secondary forms, technical institutes and in
adult education centres, and propose improvements. I will doal
similarly with the education services available for Form V and Form VI
leavors in the Poltechnic, the universities, the post-secondary
colleges and elsewhere. The Director of Education will give further
details in his reply to this debate.
Tertiary education..