Thursday, December 21, 1972
PLAN TO EXPAND SECONDARY TECHNICAL EDUCATION
Six New Schools In Building Programme
Six new Government secondary technical schools have been included
in the public works building programme to further expand post-prinary schooling
in Hong Kong.
Costing the Government about $30 million to build and equip, these
schools will be situated in the densely-populated areas of Chai lan, Yau Tong,
Diamond Hill, Kwai Fong, Lai Chi Kok and Kennedy Town.
They are standard schools each capable of accommodating 920 pupils.
"When completed in a few years' time," a spokesman for the Education
Department said, "Hong Kong will have moved a step closer towards its target
of providing such education for four per cent of those in the 12
16 age
Froup by 1976."
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Government had opened three such schools in Kwun Tong, Lung Cheung
Road and North Kwai Chung during the past three years, bringing the total
number of these schools, including five aided ones, to 13 in Hong Kong with
a total enrolment of about 9,000.
He said the new schools at Chai Wan and Yau Tong had been included in
the building programme for some time, and the sites are now being processed.
Planning for the two at Diamond Hill and Kwai Fong would soon begin.
The remaining two at Lai Chi Kok and Kennedy Town had recently been
included as new items in the public works building programme.
The spokesman said that even with assistance from Government, the
problems of shortage of finance and expertise in this field always arose in the
course of establishing a technical school.
However, he reiterated an appeal to voluntary and religious bodies
to build as many technical schools as possible, to be aided by the Government.
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