The Hong Kong Education System
Appendix D
Statements of Approved Education Policy
For the purposes of this appendix, approved policy is defined
as policy which has been approved by the Executive Council and the
Legislative Council (including the Finance Committee and the Establishment
Sub-Committee of the Legislative Council): in a few cases where particular
policies have evolved over a long period of time, there may originally
have been no formally approved policy objectives or standards; however,
the fact that funds have been voted in such cases to enable certain
activities to be carried out to certain standards is assumed to
confer a de facto policy approval upon those activities. The following
statements of overall objectives, specific objectives and standards of
provision in respect of each of the main education programme areas
correspond with those of the Fifth Development Plan: 1980 - 81 to 1984-85.
The programme areas covered are as follows:
2.
pre-primary education (para. 2)
primary education (para. 3)
junior secondary education (para. 4)
senior secondary and tertiary education (para. 5)
education in the English,schools (para. 6)
education support (para. 7)
rehabilitation (education and training)(para. 8)
employment (industrial training) (para. ̊9)
Pre-primary education
(i) The government is aware that increasing emphasis is being
placed by educators in many parts of the world on the
important contribution that suitable educational experience
received between the ages of 3 and 5 can have on children's
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