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make repeated attempts at examinations.
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Hong Kong must expand its adult education so that working/youths,
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leisure time to study thereby relieving them fro the
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young people, who fail to get into university, can use their
pressure of letting their fate being sealed by one single
examination. Open learning institutes will come on stream
very soon. I hope more degree courses will be provided to meet our youths' aspirations for further education.
per cent According to certain surveys, 52% of the respondents wish to go to tertiary institutes. The demand for such places is,
indeed, great.
I support the setting up of a commission on Youth, but I do not think Members of that Commission should assume a leading
or coordinating role, least it would result in undue
interference or social conditioning. Young people have
various kinds of needs. Each delivery agency, therefore,
should maintain its individuality and the Government should
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mould young people into a standard shade like what South Korea,
Singapore and Mainland China do, is not in line with Hong Kong's free and open society and I hope that senior government officials will be sitting on the Commission to formulate policy, and also priorities should be set for easy implementation.
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With these remarks,
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