Education Appendix C(2)
Development of senior secondary and tertiary education
The 1977 Green Paper proposed the following expansion programmes:-
(i) Opportunities for Form III leavers:-
Subsidised Form
1977
% of 15 year old population
1981
%
1986
%
IV places (with
19,600
17.4
46,800
50.0
progression to
46,800
62.8
Form V)
1st year places
on post-Form III
courses in
9,300
8.3
12,700
13.6
15,100
20.3
technical
institutes
28,900
25.7
59,500
63.6
61,900
83.1
(ii) First Year Sixth Form Places:-
% of 17
1977
year old population
1981
%
1986
%
୫୧
Lower/Middle
6,300
5.5
8,600
8.2
15,600
19.7
Form VI places
(iii) Tertiary education:-
(First Year Places)
(i) Post-Form
1977
Number
of places
(a)
% of
age
group
1981 Number % of
of places
1986
Number
age
of
% of
age
group
places
group
(b)
(a)
(b)
(a)
(b)
V courses
in
4,000
3.6
5,400
5.0
6,500
7.8
technical
institutes
(ii) Poly-
technic(c)
12,300 11.1
15,900 14.7
15,900 19.1
(iii) Colleges
of education
(including
Technical
Teachers
Colleges) (a)
400
0.4
600 0.6
600
0.7
/(iv)..
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