Question:
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F.C.O
Question No. 1
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Reply by the Hon. J.N. Henderson, OBE, JP Secretary for Education and Manpower to a Question by the Hon. Desmond LEE Yu-tai in the Legislative Council on 13 November, 1985
What is the Government's policy towards private
secondary schools with regard to their present
role in the education system and future survival.
Answer:
Sir, I assume that this question refers to the
private independent schools which have been in
the headlines recently, and not to the private-
non-profit making schools from which we also
buy places.
The 1978 White Paper on The Development of Senior
Secondary and Tertiary Education stated that:
"The Government will not extend the bought-place
scheme to senior secondary forms in private
independent schools and will terminate the buying
of junior secondary places in schools of this type
which do not have good facilities and operating
standards".
In brief, the present policy is that Government
will continue to buy places in those private
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