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Paper last year and provoked lively debate both
inside and outside this Council. Your Government
will shortly publish revised plans as a White Paper.
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As well as providing for a great expansion of
places, the White Paper will reflect the importance
the Government attaches to improving the quality of
secondary education. The most important step envisaged
will be a phazed scheme to raise "per caput" schools
to fully-aided status so as to ensure proper facilities
and more uniform standards in all schools in the public
sector.
87 Quality will also be improved by broadening
the curriculum to give more weight to practical and
technical subjects, by improving, and where applicable,
lengthening, teacher training programmes, and by
strengthening schools support services.
8 In tertiary and higher education we propose
that the Polytechnic should raise the level of some
of its work, and that, in compensation, more ordinary
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