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four to three years (incidentally enabling the
university to provide one-third more undergraduate
places). The Education Department, while recognising
that consideration of university course structure
was outside the terms of reference of the Committee,
shares this concern and believes that as long as
the different systems of undergraduate study exist
in the two universities, no very satisfactory solutions
are possible to the main problem arising in Form Six.
Some responses to the Report indicated that Form
Six studies are still seen in some quarters as being
limited to preparation for higher education. The
Education Department, however, firmly believes that
Form Six studies have a value beyond meeting entry
requirements to tertiary education institutions and
would like to see further investigation into ways
and means of widening the range of subjects available
to Form Six students.
Following considering of public comments on the Report,
the Board of Education endorsed the Director of Education's recommendations
on appropriate further action and the agreed position is now as follows :
(a) Form Six Subject Committees, at present being
created within the CDC, will study existing
Form Six syllabuses in order to assess the
feasibility of revising them according to the
approach recommended in the Report; where such
revision is found feasible teaching notes and
supplementary materials will be produced by the
subject committees to assist in the introduction