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Wednesday, October 31, 1973
It stressed the need to minimise the undesirable effects of the
Secondary School Entrance Examination on primary education and to widen
the basis for selective allocation to secondary schools.
"It is clear that for the next decade the elimination of a centrally
administered system of allocation of places will not be possible," the
Board said. Other main recommendations of the Board include the following:
Chinese should become the usual medium of instruction
in the lower forms of secondary schools; every effort should
be made to develop good textbooks for all subjects written in Chinese, to train teachers capable of instructing through the medium of Chinese and to adopt improved techniques of language teaching for both Chinese and English.
The Board said: "We are nevertheless conscious of
the need to maintain and improve standards in the teaching of English for those who will proceed beyond Form 3 level in preparation for continuing their education at the tertiary level."
In the present circumstances of Hong Kong there is no apparent justification for providing secondary education free of charge at Form 1-3 level since its introduction would result in public funds being used to provide free education for those of the community who can afford to pay fees, thus preventing such funds from being spent on other equally essential sccial needs of
the community.
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