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school without reasonable excuse and to promote within primary
education the aims and objects outlined in paragraph (i) above.
(iii) The specific objectives are:
(a) to provide new classroom accommodation as required by the
movement of population, to enable children to attend schools
within 0.4 km of their home;
(b) to provide and maintain classroom accommodation, equipment
and facilities to the standards laid down in the Education
Regulations, the Code of Aid for Primary Schools, and other
approved policies;
(c) to provide sufficient appropriately trained teachers in
government and aided schools;
(d) to provide guidance and assistance through the Schools
Division and the Advisory Inspectorate to help primary
schools to work towards the achievement of the aims described
in para. (i) above;
(e) to provide primary schools with ETV programmes with a view
to supplementing and enriching the teaching and learning
activities;*
(f) to reduce the number of over-age children in primary schools
(8.3% of total primary enrolments in September 1980 were
aged 12 or over) by discouraging late entry and limiting
repetition;
(g) to provide suitable places for primary school children to
do homework and private study in areas where there is such
a need by opening classrooms in government and aided schools
in the evenings;
(h) to provide guidance and counselling to primary school
children and to assist in the enforcement of compulsory
* ETV programmes are also provided for junior secondary forms.