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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1987
UK COUNCIL TO CONDUCT INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW
OF POST-SECONDARY COLLEGE
THE GOVERNMENT HAS
THE INVITED
UNITED KINGDOM COUNCIL FOR 'NATIONAL ACADEMIC AWARDS (CNAA) TO CONDUCT AN INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW
REGISTERED PRESENT ONE
AT OF THE TWO INSTITUTIONS POST-SECONDARY COLLEGES ORDINANCE, THE MANPOWER, THE HON RON BRIDGE, SAID IN THE {WEDNESDAY).
OF UNDER THE SECRETARY FOR EDUCATION AND LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY
IN A WRITTEN REPLY TO A QUESTION BY THE BRIDGE SAID A VALIDATION TEAM FROM THE CNAA WOULD NEXT WEEK TO EXAMINE ITS FACILITIES
HON DESMOND LEE, MR VISIT THE COLLEGE AND TEACHING RESOURCES AND TO AND WEAKNESSES AND
MAKE A REPORT TO THE GOVERNMENT ON ITS STRENGTHS ON THE LEVEL AND WORTH OF ITS EXIT QUALIFICATIONS.
WHICH OTHER
WITH THE 2-2-1 SYSTEM FOR THE COLLEGE WAS OPERATING
THE PARTIAL GOVERNMENT FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE WAS GRANTED, WHILE
CHOSEN TO CONTINUE ΤΟ OFFER FOUR-YEAR REGISTERED INSTITUTION HAD DIPLOMA COURSES WITHOUT SUCH ASSISTANCE, MR BRIDGE EXPLAINED.
"AS STATED IN THE 1978 WHITE PAPER ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF SENIOR
2-2-1 THE
SYSTEM
THE ENABLES SECONDARY AND TERTIARY EDUCATION,
TARGETS FOR COLLEGE OPERATING IT TO CONTRIBUTE TOWARDS SIXTH FORM AND TERTIARY EDUCATION PLACES,
GOVERNMENT'S HE SAID.
THE COLLEGE SECONDARY
MR BRIDGE NOTED THAT IN THE CURRENT ACADEMIC YEAR CONCERNED WAS PROVIDING 422 PLACES AT THE SECONDARY SIX AND SEVEN LEVELS AND 707 PLACES AT THE HIGHER DIPLOMA LEVEL.
"IN
1987, 87 PER CENT OF THE
OR TWO STUDENTS OBTAINED PASSES IN EXAMINATION.
MORE
"AT
THE SAME
COLLEGE
TIME, ACCORDING TO
IN RESPECT OF
SEVEN SECONDARY COLLEGE'S
SUBJECTS IN THE A-LEVEL
THE EMPLOYMENT ITS
HIGHER
1986
SURVEY DIPLOMA
ΤΟ
CONDUCTED BY THE GRADUATES, 95 PER CENT HAD EITHER OBTAINED EMPLOYMENT OR PROCEEDED FURTHER STUDIES WITHIN FOUR MONTHS OF GRADUATION," HE SAID.
REGARDING THE FORMAL ASSESSMENT OF THE COLLEGE, THE WOULD EXPECT TO RECEIVE THE CNAA'S REPORT EARLY NEXT YEAR, CONCLUDED.
MR
GOVERNMENT BRIDGE
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