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based on ability and parental choice, some schools
would attract a higher proportion of the ablest
students: hence the Director of Education would
select certain schools to develop a fully
symmetrical structure of five streams throughout
Forms I
-
V: this would minimise transfers between
schools after Form III.
(ii) some restructuring of prevocational schools to
take place, to enable a limited number of senior
secondary forms to be started for students capable
of becoming technicians;
(iii) flotation to be adopted in junior forms to facilitate
the restructuring arrangements but extended day
arrangements not to be pursued;
(iv) the government to aim to meet the full demand from
suitable students for subsidised senior secondary
education: due to the continuing decline of the
15-year-old population (which would be reduced by
more than 30 per cent in the decade 1977 86) the
places available in 1981 would provide for about
(v)
63 per cent of the population in 1986: it was considered
important that available provision did not run ahead of
demand;
the Codes of Aid to be revised to give the Director
necessary controls to prescribe the structure and
size of classes within public-sector schools (in
order to achieve policy targets);
(vi) capacity for 12,700 places on first-year courses at
the post-Form III level to be provided in technical
institutes by 1981, increasing to about 15,000 with