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Introduction
1.1
The Green Paper on Primary Education and Pre-primary Services
was published in April 1980. It was based upon the findings and recommendations
of two working parties: the Working Party on the Care and Education of
Children below Primary School Age and the Working Party on the Review of
Primary Education. These findings and recommendations were considered in
the Board of Education and in the Social Welfare Advisory Committee as
appropriate, and a number of recommendations arising from this consultation
were then incorporated into the Green Paper.
1.2
Comments were invited on the Green Paper proposals by the end of July 1980.
The response from interested organisations, groups and members of the public
was considerable. Press, television and radio coverage was also extensive
and relevant comment from the media was carefully recorded. The views
expressed in the Legislative Council during the debate in June and July 1980 and
those of the Legislative Council Ad Hoc Group set up to study the provisions
of the Green Paper were also carefully noted.
1.3
All of these views were then collated and analysed.
As a
result of this further study it is proposed to implement the vast majority of
the proposals set out in the Green Paper, although some of them have been
modified and a number of new proposals have been incorporated.
This
White Paper accordingly represents the Government's considered views
on the future development of the areas of primary education and
pre-primary services.
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