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25.

developed for the in-service training of teachers

who had been some years in the schools; university

graduates entering the teaching profession to be

encouraged to take a course of teacher training

and the need for further inducements to be considered

in this connection;

(viii)the range of courses provided by the Polytechnic to be

(ix)

broadened as it assumed responsibility for the training

of personnel for various para-medical and social work

services; It was noted that the Polytechnic would have

a full-time and equivalent part-time day and evening

student population of about 11,400 by the 1980-81

session, providing for a total student population of

about 28,800, and would level off thereafter at about

12,000 full-time and equivalent (a total of about 29,600

students)].

each of the two universities to expand at roughly

3 per cent per annum, reaching a combined population

of about 11,300 by 1983-84 and about 12,300 by 1986–87.

The Green Paner noted that the additional 27,200 places

required in Form/Middle IV (and subsequently in Form/Middle V) would

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be created through the continuing school building porgramme and by

subsidising Form IV V places in private non-profit making schools,

including asymmetrical schools (i.e. schools with fewer senior

secondary classes than junior secondary classes), whose structure

would be made more symmetrical.

1978 White Paper: The Development of Senior Secondary and Tertiary Education

26.

After public comments on the 1977 Green Paper had been

digested, a White Paper was tabled in the Legislative Council in October

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