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performance for the other programmes in the education service,
having regard to the need to ensure that the most effective
use is made of available resources.
(ii) The specific objectives are:
(a) with regard to the administration of approved policies in
the education service
(i) to provide supervisory services to schools on a
regular basis by officers of the Schools Division,
to ensure that the schools are properly administered
and that the quality of education offered is of an
acceptable standard;
(ii) to allocate primary school leavers to secondary schools
in accordance with the new allocation procedure
(Secondary School Places Allocation) which replaced
the Secondary School Entrance Examination in 1978;
(iii) to introduce in the 1980-81 academic year a system
of selection and allocation for post-Form III
education (Junior Secondary Education Assessment);
(iv) to provide advisory services to kindergartens, primary
and secondary schools, to raise the general standard
of the quality of education, to deal with specific
problems or changes in curriculum, and to organize
community youth programme activities in schools;
(v) to process applications for registration from teachers,
managers and schools in accordance with the requirements
laid down in the Education Ordinance, and to maintain
a register of all teachers, schools and school managers; (vi) to provide financial assistance to aided and private
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