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to a full secondary course, will be provided, so far as accom- modation is available, with a seventh year of education in special form I classes, provided they are under 14 years of age. Entry to government and aided secondary schools will continue to be by selective examination.
The changes relate only to government and aided schools; private schools are free to continue the existing system if they wish. Within the new pattern of education, account is being taken of the need for additional secondary schools and diversified secondary education. A considerable increase in secondary techni- cal education is proposed and, as a means to this end, the con- version of the existing government secondary modern schools to secondary schools began in September.
An Education Commission appointed by Government and con- sisting of Mr R. M. Marsh, County Education Officer, and Mr J. R. Sampson, County Treasurer, both of the Hampshire County Council, arrived in Hong Kong in February for a two months' visit.
Their terms of reference were: 'Having regard to the general circumstances, including the economy of Hong Kong; and Govern- ment's policy for the provision of primary and secondary educa- tion, excluding the University and the grant-aided post-secondary colleges; generally to examine and make recommendations on:- (a) the overall needs of the Colony in respect of education and the most economical and practical way of fulfilling these needs; and (b) the system of financing education, including public and private revenue and expenditure, having particular regard to the competing claims on the Colony's limited available funds of the many interests involved in the whole sphere of social service.'
The Commission's report was forwarded at the end of October and is now under consideration.
INAUGURATION OF THE CHINESE UNIVERSITY
The Chinese University of Hong Kong was established at an inaugural congregation held at the City Hall on 17th October. The Chinese University Commission appointed in May 1962 under the chairmanship of Mr J. S. Fulton, MA, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sussex, to advise on the establishment of a new