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Educatiu Cemin Report-No!
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23.1.84-
I strongly support the proposal of the Education
Commission to phase out the JSEA by 1991. I do so not
just because I am a member of the Commission, but because
I know for a fact that the Commission has examined every
aspect of the JSEA issue in the most careful and objective
way.
Allow me, Sir, to quote from para. 10 of the opening
chapter of the Commission's Report:-
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Underlying our deliberations have been
the fundamental issues which have confronted
education planners and policy-makers in most
parts of the world at one time or another.
Some of these are: how do we meet the challenges
of mass education up to the senior secondary
level at a time of rapid technological and other
changes; how do we resolve the problem of the
competing demands of, and for, general education
on the one hand and technical and vocational
education on the other; how do we strike a
balance between quantity and quality in education;
how should we apportion investment among school
buildings, curriculum development and teachers;
how can we achieve greater equity and efficiency
in the education system; and above all, how do we
harmonise the needs of the community and the wishes
of the individual within the resources available?"