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During 1985 the Housing Authority agreed to provide self-care
hostels in public housing estates for the more able-bodied elderly
members of the population; these hostels were in addition to the
existing quota of shared flats and housing units for single persons
in public housing estates. For those requiring a greater degree of
personal care, the planning ratio for care-and-attention home s
raised from four to five places per thousand of the elderly
population.
(b) Education
40.
In the period under review,
demonstrated the high value they
opportunities. They set themselves
was
the Hong Kong Government again
place on extending educational
the
target of providing by 1991
in
enough subsidised places in Forms 4 and 5 (for children aged 15 and 16) in secondary schools, and in one-year full-time craft courses technical institutes and training centres, to satisfy the demand for
post-junior secondary education of 96% of the age group completing Form 3. The achievement of this target which will mainly involve
the construction of 24
secondary new
schools, will
phasing out of the unpopular Junior Secondary Education Assessment
which at system,
allocates Form 3 leavers
limited number of Form 4 places in the public sector.
41.
selects present
and
permit
the
to
a
During the year 28,000 full-time or equivalent part-time
students attended institutions of higher learning in Hong Kong, of
whom 13,000 were degree courses.
on
the Joint Funding In addition,
Scheme for Hong Kong students in Britain has provided a further
valuable source
In Hong of subsidised places in higher education.
Kong, the target figure for first year places in first degree
courses
announced
by
that
over 6,300
1994-95
just was
it would proceed with the
the Government
until
of a planning
third
University. The target for provision of first year degree places by
1994-95 was thus increased to over 7,500.
Polytechnic,
the
Hong Kong's
second
City Polytechnic, planning for which started in 1982, admitted its first students in October in temporary premises,
is being constructed. Planning for a
while its
campus permanen t
third University will commence shortly.
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