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The next major field is education.
The great efforts
mad e over the last decade and a half have enabled us to
reach a point at which we can plan and define a full
provision for education.
We must do this because there
is nothing
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after security subsistence and probably
housing that the population wants so much for itself
and its children, and because without it Hong Kong could
not grow as a successful centre of industry, commerce
and finance.
83 To recapitulate: We achieved universal and
compulsory primary education in 1971.
84 All pupils completing primary school last summer
are now being provided with Secondary Education places
to Form III. By next September we shall be making
education compulsory to 14 and by September 1980 we will
have achieved our goal of universal and compulsory
education to 15 or Form III.
8.5 With the prospect of virtually all the relevant
age group leaving Form III after nine years free and
compulsory education in 1981, we drew up plans to expand
and refashion senior secondary and tertiary education.
These plans were published as a Green
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