WRITTEN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
Question No
Whole-day day
schooling for
mitten Regly by
primary
students
Secretary for gaucation and Manpower to Question by the Hon. HUI Yin fat
in the Legislative Council on 3 February 1988
9. MR. HUI asked:
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Will Government inform this Council of the number of vacant classrooms in government and aided primary schools; how many of these vacant classrooms are in bitsessional ( and M and unitsessional (who le day) schools; and will consideration be given to gradually resuming whole day teaching for all primary students in the territory by
utilizing these vacant classrooms ?
SECRETARY FOR EDUCATION AND MANPOWER:
Answer
Sir,
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The number of vacant classrooms in government and aided primáry schools in the current school year in terms of bisessional and whole-day schools is shown in the following table :
In bi- sessional schools*
In whole- day schools
Total
Total
15 770
1 260
17 030
classrooms
Vacant
3 164
431
3 595
classroomS
* Note :
Each physical
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classroom has been counted twice in
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It is already the Government's policy to encourage
primary schools to convert to whole-day operation wherever
feasible.
years.
38schools have so
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converted during the past three