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Wednesday, October 31, 1973
The Report emphasised that "quantitative targets involving the
provision of increased places should not be achieved at the expense of
the qualitative aims of Hong Kong's education system."
The Board also recommended that rotation was not considered
tance
acceptable because of the strains imposed upon staff of schools and the
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disruption of family life.
As regards "floating" classes, the Board said this arrangement
already existed in standard Secondary Technical Schools. It was also
used in existing Prevocational Schools.
On financing school buildings the Board noted that the Government's
declared policy was that expansion of education, wherever possible, would
be in the aided sector.
It therefore recommended that the Government's contribution to the
capital costs of new building projects should be increased from 80 per cent
to 90 per cent and exceptionally, to 100 per cent.
In the case of secondary technical and prevocational schools built
in housing estates, the Board said financial assistance should also be
given to the cost of furniture and equipping such schools.
The Board urged the Government to take practical steps to reduce
the time taken to allocate sites for school projects.
On public examinations the Board recommended that every effort
should be made to minimise the deleterious effects which these examinations
had on pupils and their study programmes in Secondary Schools.
Efforts should also be made to generate among students, teachers
and all concerned a better understanding of the functions of examining,
and to improve methods of learning assessment.
It stressed...
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