FPIDAY, JANUARI 24, 1986
314 EDWARD SAID HE DID NOT KNOW WHAT THE PLAN IN THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT WOULD BE NOW. THEY'VE ONLY JUST HAD THE DEBATE, BUT THEY WOULD NOW HAVE TO LOOK AGAIN AT THE ORDER IN THE LIGHT OF THE DEBATE, HE SAID.
ON MF BENTON'S VISIT TO HONG KONG, SIR EDWARD SAID IT WAS A VERY USEFUL ONE.
+IT GAVE HIM THE OPPORTUNITY TO TELL US ABOUT HIS VISIT TO PEKING, AND OF COURSE TO LISTEN TO THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL AND LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, AND TELL THE HONG KONG PRESS ALL ABOUT IT THIS MORNING, HE SAID.
ASKED WHETHER THE 1987 REVIEW WOULD ONLY FOCUS ON DEVELOPMENTS IN THE NEXT FEW YEARS, SIR EDWARD SAID THE AGENDA FOR THE 1987 REVIEW WAS IN THE WHITE PAPER.
+WHEN WE PUBLISHED THE WHITE PAPER WE SAID THERE WERE A NUMBER OF THINGS WHICH WOULD BE COVERED AT THAT TIME AND THERE THE AGENDA 13, AND THE AGENDA STILL STANDS,
HE SAID.
GOVT COMMITTED TO IMPROVE EDUCATION, SAYS GOVERNOR
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THE GOVERNMENT REMAINS COMMITTED TO CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT BOTH IN EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES AND IN THE QUALITY OF EDUCATION, THE GOVERNOR, SIR EDWARD YOUDE, SAID TODAY (FRIDAY).
SPEAKING AT THE OPENING CEREMONY OF THE NEW CAMPUS OF SHUE YAN COLLEGE, SIR EDWARD SAID THE DEMAND FOR POST-SECONDARY PLACES WAS LIKELY TO GROW AS WE MOVED TOWARDS THE 1990'S.
-THE GOVERNMENT HAS ALREADY ACCEPTED THE RECOMMENDATION OF THE EDUCATION COMMISSION THAT THE PROVISION OF SUBSIDIZED POST-FORM-THREE EDUCATION PLACES SHOULD BE EXPANDED.
+THIS EXPANSION WILL RESULT IN MORE WELL QUALIFIED CANDIDATES SEEKING SIXTH-FORM PLACES AND THIS, IN TURN, WILL INCREASE THE DEMAND FOR POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION, HE SAID.
SIR EDWARD SAID POST-SECONDARY COLLEGES PLAYED AN IMPORTANT PART IN THE TERTIARY EDUCATION IN HONG KONG AND THE RESPECT AND PRESTIGE WHICH SHUE VAN COLLEGE ENJOYED IN OUR COMMUNITY WAS REFLECTED IN THE FACT THAT NO LESS THAN 4 785 YOUNG PEOPLE APPLIED FOR ADMISSION FOR THE CURRENT ACADEMIC YEAR.
**SHUE YAN' MEANS THE CULTIVATION AND NURTURING OF THE VIRTUES OF MAN, THIS IS THE IDEAL OF SHUE YAN COLLEGE.
AS
+OUR FUTURE DEPENDS VERY MUCH ON OUR YOUNG PEOPLE AND OUR SOCIETY GROWS IN SIZE AND COMPLEXITY, IT IS ESSENTIAL THAT OUR YOUNG PEOPLE ARE WELL TRAINED AND EDUCATED SO THAT THEY WILL BE ABLE TO FACE UP TO THE MANY CHALLENGES THAT LIE AHEAD, + SIR EDWARD SAID.
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