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Oral answers to questions
I places in the north - Question No. I
Shortage testate
Secondary
eastern
Reply by the Secretary for Education and Manpower to a question by the Hon CHEUNG Yan-lung in the Legislative Counciλon 25 May 1988
1. MR. CHEUNG asked (in Cantonese):
Question: Will
this Council what
inform Government effective measures will be taken to tackle the problem of the serious shortage of Form I places in the
towns new
of the northeastern affecting the quality
Territories without
education?
New
of
SECRETARY FOR EDUCATION AND MANPOWER:
Answer
Sir,
Measures being
taken to
tackle
#
the
#
regional
shortfall in secondary school places in Shatin, Taipo and North
districts
were
detailed
in
a
reply
to a
question in
this
Council on 3 June 1987. They include the following:
per
cent
adding seven more schools to the school building
programme,
for
September 1991. completion by September
This brings to 30 the number of new secondary
schools being built in the region;
advancing the completion dates of new schools to
the maximum extent that site constraints allow;
advancing the opening of new schools by having two schools share a newly completed building in
its first year of operation;
reducing the number of discretionary places from
浥
10% to 5% and limiting them to students from the
same district;
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