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(xiii) the government to provide schools only
where an aided school could not be provided ("In
general, education can be provided more economically
in aided than in government schools and, in a period
when educational facilities must be expanded, the
capacity to do so is inevitably affected by cost;
the more economical the cost, the greater the
capacity for expansion.")
(xiv) in view of (xiii), to simplify the method of
calculation of subsidy to aided schools and the
administrative processes connected therewith; to
ensure that grants produced by a new simplified code
of aid were adequate (when taken with the approved
fees to enable schools to operate efficiently and
pay the prescribed staff salaries);
(xv)
to introduce uniform salary scales for teachers
in government and aided schools (the White Paper
reserved its position on specific salary proposals
since those recommended by the Education Commission,
relating remuneration to responsibility, were very
radical).
1973 Green Paper: Report of the Board of Education on the Proposed Expansion of Secondary Education
12.
Following the publication of the 1965 White Paper, free primary
education was subsequently introduced in all government and aided primary
schools (with the exception of the Junior English Schools and a minority
of subsidised schools) in 1971, by which time sufficient places had become
available for every child in the primary age-group. The 1965 White Paper
recommended that 15-20 per cent of those completing the primary course
should receive subsidised secondary education. In 1970, the government,