The Hong Kong Education System
Appendix A
The Development of Education Policy 1963 - 1980
This appendix summarises the major policy developments in
education from 1963 (the Report of the Education Commission) to 1980.
The documents in which these policies were discussed or announced are
as listed below:
1963 Report of Education Commission (Marsh-Sampson report)
1965
White Paper: Education Policy
1973
Green Paper: Report of the Board of Education on the
Proposed Expansion of Secondary School
Education over the Next Decade
1974 White Paper: Secondary Education in Hong Kong over the
Next Decade
1976 Green Paper: The Further Development of Rehabilitation
1977
Services in Hong Kong
White Paper: Integrating the Disabled into the Community:
A United Effort
1977 Green Paper: Development of Personal Social Work Among
Young People in Hong Kong
1977 Green Paper: Senior Secondary and Tertiary Education:
A Development Programme for Hong Kong over
the Next Decade
1978 White Paper: The Development of Senior Secondary and
Tertiary Education
1979 Report of the Board of Education's Committee on Sixth
Form Education
1979 White Paper: Social Welfare into the 1980s
1980
Green Paper: Primary Education and Pre-primary Services