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(vi) to provide better control and use of school
libraries through the Library Section of the Advisory
Inspectorate;
(vii) the provision of a wider choice of subjects so that,
as well as studying languages, science and social
studies, as many students as possible should take a
practical or technical subject. The government will
ensure that the necessary facilities are made available
and will also establish Practical Education Centres to
cater for schools presently without such facilities;
(viii) the provision of facilities in senior secondary forms
for the serious study of music and other cultural
subjects and the development of new subjects within
the curriculum to provide for students of different
aptitudes.
(b) Technical institutes
(i) to provide 33,000 places by all modes of attendance
to meet the assessed needs of industry and commerce
for trained personnel at craft level;
(ii) to provide sufficient places to meet part of the need
for technicians and to cater for any Diploma and
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Certificate courses to be transferred from the
Polytechnic;
(iii) to provide facilities for the Diploma and Certificate
courses in the technical institutes at the same standard
as similar courses in the Polytechnic.
The intention is to achieve these objectives in the early
1980s.
(c) Approved post-secondary colleges
(i)
to provide a number of assisted places at the Hong Kong
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