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education through the student guidance officers scheme.
(iv) The following specific standards have been set:
(a) that sites should be reserved for new schools at a ratio
of 1 classroom for every 850 residents (Source: Colony
Outline Plan);
(b) that the teacher class ratio should be 1.1 : 1;
(c) that advisory inspectors should be provided on the basis
of 1 inspector per 42,000 teaching periods in academic
subjects and 1 per 7,000 periods in specialist subjects.
(d) that sufficient supervisory inspectors should be provided
to enable each school to be visited at least twice per
academic year.
The following standards which were adopted in 1954 by the
Legislative Council as temporary measures have been retained: (e) a maximum class size of 45 in government and aided schools
(the previous standard was 40);
(f) bi-sessional rather than uni-sessional operation.
Junior secondary education
(i) Junior secondary education serves to complete the process of
general education for all that began with primary education.
It serves also as a basis' for selecting those who will continue
their education in senior secondary forms or in technical institutes. (ii) The overall objective in junior secondary education is to provide
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for every child who completes 6 years of primary education a free 3-year course of junior secondary education (Forms I III)
in day secondary schools in the public sector; to take steps
to ensure that as far as possible children will receive this
education between the ages of 12 and 15; and to ensure by 1980
that no child within this age group is withheld from attending