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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 1986
TO TRY TO PREVENT THE RECURRENCE OF SUCH A PROBLEM ELSEWHERE, AN INTER-DEPARTMENTAL WORKING GROUP WAS SET UP WITH THE PRIMARY TASK OF REFINING POPULATION PROJECTIONS AND ADJUSTING THE SCHOOL BUILDING PROGRAMME ACCORDINGLY, HE ADDED.
REFERRING TO IMPLEMENTATION OF THE GOVERNMENT'S POLICY ON LANGUAGE IN EDUCATION IN GENERAL AND ON THE PUBLICATION OF TEXTBOOKS IN CHINESE IN PARTICULAR, MR HENDERSON SAID IT WOULD BE THE TASK OF THE CHINESE TEXTBOOKS COMMITTEE TO ENSURE THE AVAILABILITY OF GOOD QUALITY TEXTBOOKS OF APPROPRIATE STANDARD.
HE ADDED THAT THE HON SZETO WAH HAD AGREED TO CHAIR THIS COMMITTEE AND ARRANGEMENTS TO APPOINT THE REMAINING MEMBERS WERE IN HAND AND IT WOULD BEGIN ITS WORK SHORTLY,
THE WORK OF THE COMMITTEE WOULD ALSO BE INSTRUMENTAL IN ACHIEVING ONE OF THE MAJOR OBJECTIVES ENVISAGED IN A REPORT OF THE WORKING PARTY ON THE CHINESE LANGUAGE FOUNDATION, COPIES OF WHICH HE LAID BEFORE MEMBERS.
COPIES OF THIS REPORT ARE ALSO AVAILABLE FROM THE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT HEADQUARTERS IN LEE GARDENS, CAUSEWAY BAY, AND FROM THE GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS CENTRE IN CONNAUGHT PLACE, CENTRAL. REFERENCE COPIES ARE ALSO KEPT IN DISTRICT BOARD LIBRARIES AND AT MAIN PUBLIC ENQUIRY COUNTERS IN DISTRICT OFFICES.
MR HENDERSON NOTED THAT THE GOVERNMENT HAD DECIDED IN THE LIGHT OF DEVELOPMENTS SINCE 1982 NOT TO PROCEED WITH THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A CHINESE LANGUAGE FOUNDATION AT THE PRESENT
TIME.
ON THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A THIRD UNIVERSITY, HE SAID ACTION WAS IN HAND TO SET UP THE PLANNING COMMITTEE WHICH WOULD OVERSEE THE PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTATION OF THIS IMPORTANT PROJECT.
THE CHAIRMAN AND THE SECRETARY GENERAL WOULD BE APPOINTED IN THE VERY NEAR FUTURE AND THE FULL COMMITTEE WOULD BE APPOINTED AND IN OPERATION BY THE AUTUMN.
THE UNIVERSITY SHOULD ACCEPT ITS FIRST INTAKE OF STUDENTS NO LATER THAN THE 1994-97 TRIENNIUM, HE ADDED.
ON A SUGGESTION THAT THE DISTRIBUTION OF RESOURCES BETWEEN THE VARIOUS EDUCATIONAL SECTORS COULD BE IMPROVED, MR HENDERSON SAID THE EDUCATION COMMISSION WAS VERY MUCH AWARE OF THE NEED TO CONSIDER THE QUESTION OF ALLOCATION OF RESOURCES BETWEEN SECTORS AS WELL AS THE OVERALL QUALITY OF EDUCATION,
+THE COMMISSION ALSO HAS IN MIND THE NEED TO MAKE PROVISION FOR SECOND-CHANCE OPPORTUNITIES AND WOULD BE ADDRESSING THIS MATTER IN ITS REPORT NO. 2 WHICH SHOULD BE COMPLETED AROUND THE MIDDLE OF THE YEAR, HE SAID.
/CONCERNING THE