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secondary schools.
(ii) Steps should be taken to achieve greater uniformity
of staffing in government and aided schools, a common
code of financial assistance to aided schools and a revised
procedure regarding admissions to such schools. The amount
of the per capita grants should reflect levels of actual
expenditure and be subject to regular review; the need
for higher per capita grants for secondary technical
education should be examined; fee remission in aided
schools should be determined by a uniform procedure
prescribed by the government; the use of subscriptions
or Tong Fai income should be as approved by the Director
of Education.
(iii) Existing schemes for aid to teachers in selected private
non-profit-making schools should be extended; schemes for
assisted places in such schools should be extended in primary
schools and introduced in the secondary sector; the scrutiny
of applications for increased fees in private schools should
be strengthened; consideration should be given to means of
permitting owners of private schools to pay the government
for land by instalments and to the making of government
loans repayable at market interest rates for the costs of
construction of private schools.
(iv) Steps should be taken to discourage and, if possible,
prevent examinations in attainment for children applying
for entry to primary schools; research should be undertaken
into the practicability of assessing potential as well as
attainment before reaching a decision on the allocation of
secondary school places; steps should be taken to reduce
private entry in aided schools; action should be taken to
eliminate over-age children in primary schools by limiting