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In deciding on its recommendations on the furth
expansion of post-Form 3 education to enable the JSEA to
be phased out, the Commission took into account all these
contance in the panapath Than gut quested.
points While it was apparent that there was much social demand for general education at the senior secondary level,
the Commission had to ensure that the needs of industry
would also be met: hence the need for the provision of
While it was additional technical and vocational places. apparent that there was much demand for quantity, the
Commission had to ensure that. this was achieved not at the
expense of quality:
schools and to buy Form 4-5 places only from the more .
hence the need to build more aided
satisfactory private schools. While it was apparent that
there was much demand for provision of places either through
building or buying, the Commission had to ensure that
physical expansion is not unaccompanied by the provision of an appropriate language policy, adequate trained teachers
and a broadened curriculum to cater for the needs of the
academically less able pupils: hence all the relevant
recommendations on these matters. While it was apparent
that indiscriminate buying of Form 4-5 places from private
schools might enable the JSEA to be phased out quickly,
the Commission had to pay regard to the fact that equity
and efficiency in the education system as a whole need to
be enhanced rather than diminished.