the standards of
these
comes, they will
subsidy scheme.
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schools SO that,
when the time
have a good chance of joining the new
58.
We agree with the Education
education must be seen as a desirable rather
Commission that
pre-primary
a
clear
need
to
improve standards of
than an essential part of our education system. But we see
teaching in
We therefore propose to improve the basic
kindergarten teachers and introduce a
kindergartens.
training course for
new fee remission scheme. This will replace the existing
scheme of fee assistance and allow additional help to be
given to less well-off parents who have children
kindergartens.
in
59.
In laying down broad programmes for improvements
educational system we must not overlook the special
Some for
to our
difficulties that individual schools Face.
instance have severe problems of noise. We have already
sound-proofed and air-conditioned 37 schools affected by
aircraft. This year, we are starting a new programme that
will cover a total of 117 aided and Government schools
affected by unacceptable levels of traffic noise. We aim to
complete it during the early 1990's.
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