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particular, secondary and primary education did not receive much attention in this Budget. While I am pleased to see a start made in the development of school-based curriculum, I'm disappointed by the omission of two items. They are the additional graduate teacher of Chinese for every secondary school with 18 classes Or more and the recurrent grant to schools for strengthening civic education.
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its First Report published Commission recognized the need to strengthen the teaching of Chinese, And the heavier workload of teachers of Chinese should be suitably reduced to ensure quality and professional updating. The recommendation was accepted, and the Education
No. 2, Commission in its Mumber Keport/ published in August 1986, indicated that
that this will be implemented in September 1988. Regrettably, no funds were proposed in the 1988/89 Budget for employing this additional teacher of Chinese although the problem was long recogniied and the commitment was made with a target date. Surely, this cannot be due to a lack of funds in 1988/89. E
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