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subsidised places in forms 4 and 5 of secondary schools
should be met by 1991. A Chinese Textbooks Committee was
established whose task will be to ensure that an adequate
supply of good quality textbooks will be available to
schools wishing to adopt Chinese as the medium of
instruction.
The Education Commission, set up in April 1984
to co-ordinate and give consolidated advice on educational
policy in Hong Kong, released its second report in
September.
The
report
contains
recommendations for sixth form education,
far-reaching
pre-school
education, teacher preparation, open education and the
financing of the education system and has generated wide.
public interest.
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Last year the Hong Kong Government announced its
intention to establish a third university in the
territory. A committee to oversee the planning of the
new institution has now been established with
distinguished local and Overseas membership The new
university will be a grouping of professional schools
emphasizing science, technology, management and business
studies. It is expected that it will
will admit its first
students in the mid-1990s
mid-1990s by which
time the number of