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The
Details of current provision by the Education Department's
Adult Education Section are shown at appendix J. A feature to which
attention needs to be drawn is that a significant proportion of
the work carried out by this Section (and by some voluntary
agencies) is not strictly adult education in the popular sense.
Department's Evening Institute offers formal courses ranging from
literacy to secondary and post-secondary studies, and general
background courses provide fundamental and elementary education
at primary level, albeit with special reference to adult needs and
interests. There is still a necessary emphasis on courses at
secondary school level - the Young People's Courses, the Secondary
School Course and the Middle School Course for Adults
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In a
which lead
to the Hong Kong Certificate of Education examination. With the
establishment of nine years' basic education the emphasis in the
latter courses is shifting to the senior secondary level (and
indeed, in calculating senior secondary provision over the planning
period the 1978 White Paper took such places into account).
sense such courses could now be regarded as forming a part-time
extension of normal day-school provision during a period of
consolidation in basic educational provision. In this context it
should also be noted that private evening schools offering formal
education courses, though declining in the long term, are still
flourishing in Hong Kong in spite of their very variable standards.
In September 1980 the total enrolment in such schools was as follows
(figures for 1979 in brackets):
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