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IN ADDITION, PROGRESS HAD A PRIMARY CLASS TO 40 PUPILS. TIME TO INDIVIDUAL PUPILS.
BEEN MADE IN REDUCING THE SIZE OF TEACHERS COULD THUS DEVOTE MORE
THE ACTIVITY APPROACH IN TEACHING HAD PROVED TO BE POPULAR AND WOULD BE EXTENDED, MR LEUNG SAID.
ON THE TEACHING OF PUTONGHUA IN PRIMARY SCHOOLS, MR LEUNG SHI THE DEPARTMENT WOULD INCLUDE PUTONGHUA AS AN OPTIONAL SUBJECT I THE PRIMARY SCHOOL CURRICULAR IN SEPTEMBER.
HE ALSO GAVE AN ASSURANCE THAT NEW PRIMARY SCHOOLS WOULD BE BUILT TO KEEP PACE WITH THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEW TOWNS AND INDIVIDUAL DISTRICTS AFTER THE TARGETS SET TO PROVIDE PRIMARY SCHOOL PLACES WERE FULLY MET.
CIVIC EDUCATION THROUGH CONTINUING EDUCATION
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CONTINUING EDUCATION HAS A DIRECT BEARING UPON CIVIC EDUCATION AND THE TWO TYPES OF EDUCATION AIMED AT EFFECTING LIFE-LONG CHANGES IN ATTITUDE AND BEHAVIOUR IN THE LEARNERS' PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT AND THEIR PARTICIPATION IN THE SOCIAL, ECONOMIC AND CULTURAL ACTIVITIES OF THE COMMUNITY, THE SENIOR ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION (PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT), MR JOHN WINFIELD, SAID TODAY (SATURDAY).
SPEAKING AT THE ADULT EDUCATION CONFERENCE AT TSUEN WAN TOWN HALL, MR WINFIELD SAID THE ADULT EDUCATION AND RECREATION CENTRES OF THE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT HAD BEEN MAKING COMMENDABLE EFFORTS FOR THE PAST 30 YEARS TO EFFECT SUCH CHANGES.
+THESE CENTRES HAVE NOW BECOME NOT MERELY VENUES FOR SKILL ORIENTATED EDUCATIONAL AND RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES BUT ALSO NURTURING GROUNDS FOR CIVIC AWARENESS AND RESPONSIBLE CITIZENSHIP,+ MR WINFIELD SAID.
THERE WAS A MIXTURE OF ADULT AND CIVIC EDUCATION IN THESE CENTRES DUE IN THE LARGE MEASURE TO THE COURSES OF TRAINING WHICH WERE PROVIDED EACH YEAR FOR ALL VOLUNTARY HELPERS AND ASSISTANT ORGANISERS.
MR WINFIELD POINTED OUT THAT AN INCREASING NUMBER OF VOLUNTARY AGENCIES HAD RESPONDED TO THE CALL FOR MORE CIVIC EDUCATION TO BE PROVIDED FOR ADULTS SINCE THE PUBLICATION OF THE 1984 WHITE PAPER ON THE FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT IN HONG KONG.
IN THE CURRENT YEAR, 26 VOLUNTARY AGENCIES WERE ORGANISING ADULT EDUCATION ACTIVITIES IN WHICH THERE WAS A STRONG CIVIC EDUCATION ELEMENT, HE SAID.
/+THE EDUCATION