HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
12 July 1989
香港立法局
————一九八九年七月十二日
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直接導致人才流失及教師入職水平下降。政府可否告知本局,會否盡速考慮檢討現行的學前教育 政策,例如通過直接資助方式,以改善幼師待遇,提高教學水平?
SECRETARY FOR EDUCATION AND MANPOWER: Sir, we have been reviewing pre-primary education policy in the light of the Education Commission's recommendations in its Report No. 2. We intend to seek approval shortly for a package of measures designed to raise standards of staffing in kindergartens. These include
(a) a large-scale programme of basic training to ensure that, within a five year period, all kindergarten teachers obtain at least the minimum qualification;
(b) publishing recommended salary scales;
(c) enabling operators to meet higher staff costs by allowing higher fees to be charged, and by raising the existing level of fee assistance to eligible needy parents; and
(d) ways and means of encouraging operators to employ a higher
proportion of trained staff.
Civic education
5. MR. DAVID CHEUNG asked: Will the Administration inform this Council whether, to improve civic education and the ideas of democracy among young people, it will consider amending the Education Ordinance and Regulations to permit students to receive instruction and education which is of a political or partly political nature and to participate in processions or political activities?
SECRETARY FOR EDUCATION AND MANPOWER: Sir, nothing in the Education Ordinance or Regulations prevents students from receiving instruction and education aimed at promoting political awareness and knowledge. It is only where such instruction or education is considered by the Director of Education to be prejudicial to the public interest or to the welfare of the students or of education generally that it may be prohibited.
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