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for a further 20 per cent of the population;
other types of public-sector place to be available
for the Form/Middle III leaver in adult education
centres and in special institutions such as the
Police Cadet School; It was noted that there was
separate provision for children of expatriate families
and those within the ambit of special education, and
that some students might choose to go to private
independent schools even when sufficiently publicly-
provided places were available.]
(iii) the curriculum of Forms/Middle IV-V to be broadened,
in particular to include a greater emphasis on practical
and technical subjects; It was noted that the development
of new subjects would enable students of different aptitudes
to be provided for, though the nature of the courses should
continue to be geared to the needs of the abler section of
the population who were capable of satisfactory performance
in the HKCE. The range of subjects in this examination
should be broadened similarly, though the existing
standard of grades A-E should be maintained.
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(v)
a sixth technical institute to be built at Tuen Mun,
if justified by the support given by industry to the
earlier institutes and if required to support the
developing industries in the vicinity of Tuen Mun;
a common credit unit system between technician programmes
of study at the technical institutes and the Polytechnic
to be developed to assist mobility between institutions;
the government to continue the policy, derived from the
1974 White Paper, of providing a subsidised Lower VI
place (with progression to Upper VI in schools with a
two-year spMEMENTIre) for up to one third of