Chapter 2: Principal targets and decisions
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The principal measures described in succeeding chapters are:-
subsidised places in senior secondary forms (Forms IV-V), in technical institutes and adult education centres, to be expanded to the full extent of demand from suitable students by the early 1980s;
subsidised sixth-form places to be made available for up to one-third of students entering subsidised Form IV places two years previously, provided that the schools consider them to be suited academically to the demands of a sixth-form course;
private non-profit-making schools which are suitable and willing to be brought by stages within the full scheme of assistance provided under a common Code of Aid;
the curriculum to be broadened, with greater emphasis on practical and technical subjects, and improved facilities and support services to be provided;
an improved scheme of teacher training;
ordinary technician and equivalent commercial programmes to be expanded through the technical institutes, thus enabling the Polytechnic to concentrate on programmes at the higher technician and technologist levels;
the approved expansion programmes for sixth-form and tertiary education to be achieved partly through the post-secondary colleges, to which assistance will be provided in respect of places on two-year courses at sixth-form level and on subsequent two-year courses directed towards professional and vocational quali- fications;
the number of students taking degree courses to be increased, by an expansion of the two universities, by the introduction of part-time internal degrees at the universities and, subject to the advice of the University and Polytechnic Grants Committee (UPGC), by a limited degree programme at the Polytechnic;
improvements to be made to the Education Department's adult education courses and assistance provided to selected adult education projects run by voluntary agencies.
It must, however, be realized that as noted in Appendix 2, the financial cost of implementation of these measures is high. Accordingly, the timing of their fulfilment will be subject to a regular review of the overall resources available to the Government and of the share of them which properly can be made available for senior secondary and tertiary education.
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