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Supplementary to Question No in Lego Meeting on 8.5.88
Mr. SZETO (in Cantonese): Sir, as the Chairman of the
Chinese Textbooks Committee, I was informed earlier on by the
Secretarty for Education and Manpower that we should start
planning to publish textbooks on computer studies for
Form VI
students. At that time I asked whether I need
to wait for the decision of the authorities on the A level
and I level examinations.
At that time the
Secretary
told me that there was no need to wait for such a decision.
He told me that the decision would not be dependent upon the
decision regarding examinations. Will the Government
inform this Council why we have to wait for the decision of
the Education Commission before a new subject is introduced
to the sixth form curriculum and why we have to wait so long?.
SECRETARY FOR EDUCATION AND MANPOWER: Sir, I think Mr. SZETO
Wah is confusing two different things. The conversation he
referred to, if I have understood him rightly, was a com-
paratively recent one ; at that time I was already aware
of the decision having been taken about the sixth form, so
I was quite confident in asking him to go ahead. I think
that the position from the Examinations Authority's point of
view when the position was uncertain was that it simply
was not practicable for them to plan sixth form courses
without knowing what the nature of those courses would be.
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PROF. POON: Sir, has the Government carried out any