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Wednesday, October 31, 1973
No child should be denied a Government, aided or
assisted place in a secondary school because of the
inability of his parents to pay the school fees. The Board urged the Government to examine present
procedures to ensure that policy regarding fee
remissions be carried into effect.
* The necessity for regular review of the position
regarding free education in the light of changing
circumstances, particularly when provision of three
years of assisted post-primary education is achieved for all in the 12-14 age group.
"Teacher education holds the key to educational improvement
in both quantitative and qualitative terms. We recognise that the
supply of professionally trained teachers, including technical
teachers, is a crucial factor in the development programme," the Board
said.
A fourth College of Education should be established
as soon as possible, in temporary accommodation in the
first instance; it should also include facilities for
the training of non-graduate technical teachers.
The two Universities should give serious consideration
to a greater expansion of their graduate teacher education
facilities.
A Technical Teacher Training Board should be established
under the auspices of the Board of Education.
Suitably constituted machinery should be established
under the Board of Education to study, and cake
recommendations on, all aspects of teacher education
in Hong Kong.
There should
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