WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1, 19.
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PREVOCATIONAL SCHOOL PLACES PROVE POPULAR
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THE NUMBER OF FORM 1 PLACES IN PREVOCATIONAL SCHOOLS FOR THE COMING ACADEMIC YEAR HAD BEEN OVERSUBSCRIBED BY 300. PER CENT,
THE INDICATING THE IR POPULARITY WITH PARENTS, MR MICHAEL LEUNG, ACTING DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION, SAID TODAY (WEDNESDAY).
SPEAKING AT THE GROUND BREAKING CEREMONY OF THE TUNG WAH GROUP OF HOSPITALS YOW KAM YUEN PREVOCATIONAL SCHOOL, HE SAID THAT MORE THAN 10 400 APPLICATIONS HAD BEEN RECEIVED FOR ABOUT 3 200 PLACES.
AT PRESENT THERE ARE 13 PREVOCATIONAL SCHOOLS IN HONG KONG, INCLUDING THE CMA CHOI CHEUNG KOK PREVOCATIONAL SCHOOL WHICH WILL OPEN THIS SEPTEMBER IN TUEN MUN. THEY WILL PROVIDE A TOTAL OF OVER 11 500 PLACES FROM FORM 1 TO FORM 5 IN THE NEXT ACADEMIC YEAR.
MR LEUNG SAID MORE PLACES WOULD BE AVAILABLE WITH THE COMPLETION OF 11 MORE PREVOCATIONAL SCHOOLS OVER THE NEXT FEW YEAR..
PREVOCATIONAL SCHOOLS ARE GOVERNMENT-AIDED SCHOOLS PROVIDING FIVE YEARS OF SECONDARY EDUCATION.
THE FIRST THREE YEARS OF JUNIOR SECONDARY EDUCATION AIMS AT PREPARING STUDENTS FOR THE CRAFT APPRENTICESHIP SCHEME- AND THE T.... YEARS OF SENIOR SECONDARY EDUCATION, AT PREPARING STUDENTS WITH BETTER RESULTS FOR THE HONG KONG CERTIFICATE OF EDUCATION EXAMINATION AND FOR TECHNICIAN PROGRAMMES.
+ HOPE PARENTS CAN NOTE THEIR CHILDREN'S INTERESTS SO THAT THEY CAN MAKE THE RIGHT CHOICE IN CHOOSING A SECONDARY SCHOOL FOR THE IR CHILDREN. IN THIS WAY STUDENTS WITH POTENTIAL CAN FULLY DEVELOP THE IR TALENTS IN THE INDUSTRIAL FIELD, MR LEUNG SAID.
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LOCATED IN SHA TIN, THE YOW KAM YUEN PREVOCATIONAL SCHOOL WILL BE A CO-EDUCATIONAL ONE, PROVIDING 16 CLASSROOMS, NINE WORKSHOPS AND SEVEN SPECIAL ROOMS, AND ACCOMMODATING 1 000 STUDENTS.
ITS CURRICULUM WILL INCLUDE TECHNICAL-PRACTICAL SUBJECTS SUCH AS LIGHT METALWORK AND FINISHING, AND PRINTING.
MR LEUNG COMMENDED THE TUNG WAH GROUP OF HOSPITALS FOR THE IR EFFORTS IN PROMOTING EDUCATION.
THE GROUP RUNS OVER 30 PRIMARY, SECONDARY AND SPECIAL SCHOOL >, AND KINDERGARTENS.
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