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DRAFT
Chapter 7
Control of the Primary School System
7.1
The Green Paper considered the pressures imposed on young
children by the intense competition to enter popular primary schools and
the effect this had on education at the kindergarten level. It proposed
the introduction of a system of centralised allocation of Primary 1 places
on a district basis and set out one method by which this could be achieved.
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7.2
While a number of suggestions were made for modifying the
tentative system proposed, the concept of some system of controlling entry
to Primary 1 was supported by the majority of those responding to the
Green Paper. The Government has, therefore, decided to implement a system
of control along the lines described in the following paragraphs.
major change from the method set out in the Green Paper is to give more
discretion to schools while at the same time completely eliminating tests
The new system is still primarily district-based, each
and examinations.
The
district containing approximately half the number of primary schools that are
contained in each of the Secondary School Places Allocation nets used in
the annual Secondary School Places Allocation exercise. The new system
will be introduced in 1983 and reviewed at regular intervals.
7.3
Instead of the division into discretionary places and allocated
places suggested in the Green Paper, there will be three types of places:
unrestricted discretionary places
(a)
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up to
35% of the places in Primary 1 in each
school may be of this category;
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