香港政府
GIS
新聞處
DAILY INFORMATION BULLETIN
MONDAY, APRIL 21, 1975
SCHOOL ENROLMENTS CONTINUE TO RISE
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THE NUMBER OF PUPILS ENROLLED AT ALL TYPES OF SCHOOLS, COLLEGES AND EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS IN SEPTEMBER 1974 WAS 1,302,838, REPRESENTING ABOUT ONE-THIRD OF THE ENTIRE POPULATION OF HONG KONG.
ACCORDING TO A SPOKESMAN FOR THE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT THIS WAS AN INCREASE OF 0.7 PER CENT OVER THE SEPTEMBER 1973 FIGURE WHEN TOTAL ENROLMENT STOOD AT 1,294,053.
THE SPOKESMAN SAID THAT ENROLMENT TRENDS AT THE VARIOUS LEVELS OF EDUCATION KINDERGARTEN, SECONDARY SCHOOLS AND POST-SECONDARY EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS -- ALL SHOWED A GENERAL INCREASE, EXCEPT FOR PRIMARY SCHOOLS WHERE ENROLMENT DROPPED FROM 723,579 ÎN SEPTEMBER 1973 TO 696,987 IN SEPTEMBER LAST YEAR.
IN FACT, TOTAL ENROLMENT IN PRIMARY DAY AND NIGHT SCHOOLS HAS BEEN FALLING STEADILY OVER THE PAST FOUR YEARS FROM 764,313 IN SEPTEMLER 1971 TO 748,291 IN SEPTEMBER 1972 TO 723,579 IN SEPTEMBER 1973.
+THE FALL IN THE ENROLMENT OF EVENING AND SPECIAL AFTERNOON CLASSES HAS BEEN CONTINUING SINCE SEPTEMBER 1963, OWING TO A CONTINUOUS EXPANSION OF PRIMARY DAY SCHOOLS DURING THE 1960S,+ THE SPOKESMAN SAID.
+ENROLMENT IN DAY SCHOOLS,+ HE ADDED, HAS ONLY STARTED TO FALL SINCE SEPTEMBER 1972, PROBABLY DUE TO THE DECREASING SIZE OF THE PRIMARY AGE GROUP RESULTING FROM A DECREASING NUMBER OF BIRTHS SINCE 1967.+
AS AT THE END OF SEPTEMBER 1974, THERE WERE 1,190 PRIMARY SCHOOLS IN OPERATION, INCLUDING 744 GOVERNMENT AND AIDED SCHOOLS AND 446 PRIVATE.
IN THE CASE OF KINDERGARTENS, ENROLMENT CONTINUED TO INCREASE FROM 132,335 IN SEPTEMBER 1973 TO 137,117 IN SEPTEMBER LAST YEAR. ALL WERE ENROLLED IN THE 778 PRIVATE KINDERGARTENS.
IN SECONDARY EDUCATION, ENROLMENT IN GRAMMAR AND TECHNICAL SCHOOLS OFFERING COURSES LEADING TO THE HONG KONG CERTIFICATE OF EDUCATION EXAMINATION HAS STEADILY INCREASED OVER THE PAST FOUR YEARS - FROM 244,786 IN SEPTEMBER 1971 TO 291,200 IN SEPTEMBER 1973 AND TO 332,716 IN SEPTEMBER 197E.
IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS NOT PROVIDING CERTIFICATE OF EDUCATION EXAMINATION COURSES, TOTAL ENROLMENT IN SEPTEMBER LAST YEAR VAS 37,857 SPREAD OUT AS FOLLOWS: 3,349 IN PRE VOCATIONAL SCHOOL, 2,949 IN SECONDARY MODERN SCHOOLS, 2,365 IN VOCATIONAL AND CERTUM SCHOOLS, AND 23,194 IN EVENING AND TUTORIAL SCHOOLS.
Issued by Government Information Services, Beaconsfield House, Hong Kong. Tel: 5-233191
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