Speech by SEM for Budget Debate 1985
Mr. Francis Tien has referred to the importance
of technical and vocational education and urged that
grants to the Vocational Training Council be kept
at an adequate level, a view which I share, and
Mr. Peter C. Wong has commented on the need to review
the modes of financing education.
2.
As Mr. Wong has pointed out, education accounts
for the biggest single slice of Government expenditure.
The enormous sum of $7.81 billion has been provided
for education in 1985-86: 17% of total expenditure.
Nothing could more clearly demonstrate Government's
commitment to maintaining, extending and improving
the educational system of Hong Kong, including
technical and vocational education.
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3. No doubt the cry will be heard that still
more needs to be done. A word of caution is appropriate
here. Faced with existing expenditure of the magnitude
I have referred to, it seems clear that any new
advances of any size may have to be accompanied by a
review of the present methods of financing education.
I am grateful to Mr. Wong for making this point and
assure him that these important questions are receiving
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