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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1978
T.Y THESE, THE NUMBER OF FORM 1 TO 3 BOUGHT PLACES IN PRIVATE INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS WILL HAVE BEEN REDUCED TO SOME 17,000 BY THE MID-1980S, THERE IS NO INTENTION TO BUY FORM 4 TO 5 PLACES IN THE PRIVATE INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS. IN THE MEANTIME SUPERVISION OF SCHOOLS OFFERING BOUGHT PLACES WILL CONTINUE AND, IF NECESSARY, DE INCREASED TO ENSURE THE MAINTENANCE OF ADEQUATE STANDARDS.+
REITERATING HIS AWARENESS OF THE NEED FOR GREATER
UN IFORMITY OF STANDARDS IN THE PROVISION OF PUBLIC SECTOR PLACES, MR. TOPLEY SAID THIS OF COURSE, IS NOT LIMITED TO SEN FOR SECONDARY PLACES, BUT COVERS ALL SECONDARY SCHOOL LEVELS. THE UNIFORMITY SOUGHT WILL BE ACHIEVED ONLY BY BRINGING ON TO FULL SUBSIDY ALL THE NON-PROF IT-HAK ING SCHOOLS PARTICIPATING IN THE CAPUT GRANT SCHEME.
+THE GREEN PAPER BEING CONCERNED WITH SENIOR SECONDARY EDUCATION, REFERRED ONLY TO THE BUYING OF FORM 4 TO 5 PLACES IN THESE SCHOOLS AND TO THE NEED FOR A REVIEW OF THE LEVEL OF ASSISTANCE TO THEM.
+THIS WAS DISCUSSED RECENTLY WITHIN THE GOVERNMENT AND PROPOSALS ARE NOW BEING CONSIDERED WHICH COULD ACHIEVE UNIFORMITY OF ASSISTANCE IN ALL PUBLIC SECTOR SCHOOLS WITHIN THREE TO FIVE YEARS OF THE PUBLICATION OF THE WHITE PAPER. WHATEVER THE TIME-SCALE FINALLY AGREED, IT IS HOPED THAT THE FIRST STEPS WILL BE TAKEN IN SEPTEMBER, 1979.+
IN AN EFFORT TO CLEAR UP A MISCONCEPTION HELD BY MR. S.L. CHEN, MR. TOPLEY SAID THE 1965 WHITE PAPER LAID DOWN THAT EXPANSION, WHEREVER POSSIBLE, SHOULD BE THROUGH THE AIDED SECTOR, AND THIS POLICY HAS BEEN FOLLOWED,
+THIS, HOWEVER, HAS BEEN NO REFLECTION ON THE STANDARDS OF GOVERNMENT SECONDARY SCHOOLS, WHOSE REPUTATION WITHIN THE COMMUNITY STANDS VERY HIGH.+
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TURNING TO MEMBERS' SUPPORT FOR THE IDEA OF BROADENING THE CURRICULUM AT THE SENIOR SECONDARY LEVEL AND, IN PARTICULAR, TO THE INTRODUCTION CF A GREATER PRACTICAL AND TECHNICAL CONTE T, .R. TOPLEY ASSURED MEMBERS THAT THEIR WISHES WOULD BE CATERED FOR IN THE HITE PAPER AND, HOFE IMPORTANT, LE IMPLEMENTED IN SCH CL COURSES.
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+1 MUST ADVISE MEMBERS, HOWEVER, THAT TO INTRODUCE A GREATER PRACTICAL AND TECHNICAL ELEMENT WILL NOT BE ITHOUT ITS DIFFICULTIES,+ HE SAID.
+A CONSIDERABLE AMOUNT OF ADAPTING AND EXTENDING OF PREVISES WILL BE REQUIRED. THE FLOATIC CLASS SYSTEM, UPON WHICH „E SPALL HAVE TO FELY FOR QUITE SOME TIVE DOES THE IT DIFFICULT BECAUSE THE SPECIALIST ROOMS QUICKLY BECOME OVERLOADED.
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