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secondary education, the purpose being to fill
the gap of two years between the end of primary
schooling and the statutory minimum age for
industrial employment an arrangement which had
proved to be very unpopular and in the event not
particularly beneficial);
(v) not to increase fees in urban and rural primary
schools;
(vi) to increase the allowable rate of primary school
fee remission by introducing an overall primary
school fee remission rate of 20 per cent (it was
thought clearly preferable to proceed towards a
system of free primary education by increasing
the allowable rate of fee remission rather than
by an all-round reduction in fees, hence helping
those whose need was greatest);
(vii) to increase the number of pupils admitted to
government and aided secondary (grammar and
technical) schools and to subsidised places
in selected private schools to between 15 and
20 per cent of the total number of pupils
completing the primary course;
(viii) in the expectation that an additional 50 - 60
per cent of pupils leaving the primary schools
would find places in private secondary schools,
to subsidise at least 1,500 places per year in
private secondary schools (to include, them in
the 15-20 per cent mentioned in (vii));
(ix)
to increase government and aided secondary
school fees as follows: