SATURDAY, JULY 9, 1988
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GOVERNOR TO SIGN DCA
THE GOVERNOR, SIR DAVID WILSON, WILL SIGN THE NEW DEFENCE COSTS AGREEMENT DURING HIS FORTHCOMING VISIT TO BRITAIN.
THE NEW AGREEMENT, LIKE PREVIOUS ONES, WILL SET OUT IN DETAIL THE PROVISIONS OF THE HEADS OF AGREEMENT INITIALLED BY THE FINANCIAL SECRETARY, MR PIERS JACOBS, IN LONDON ON JUNE 27.
SSPA RESULTS TO BE RELEASED ON TUESDAY
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RESULTS OF THE SECONDARY SCHOOL PLACES ALLOCATION
(SSPA) WILL
BE RELEASED ON TUESDAY (JULY 12), THE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT ANNOUNCED TODAY (SATURDAY).
A TOTAL OF 85,407 PRIMARY 6 PUPILS TOOK PART IN THE SSPA THIS
HAVE BEEN YEAR AND ALL OF THEM
ALLOCATED
1 SECONDARY
PLACES IN GOVERNMENT, AIDED OR PRIVATE SECONDARY SCHOOLS, A SPOKESMAN FOR THE DEPARTMENT SAID.
AMONG THE PRIMARY 6 LEAVERS, 41,140 (48.17 PER CENT) HAVE BEEN ALLOCATED PLACES OF THEIR FIRST CHOICE.
ANOTHER 17,643 HAVE BEEN GIVEN
PLACES OF THEIR SECOND AND TOTAL OF STUDENTS ALLOCATED
THIRD CHOICES, BRINGING THE COMBINED PLACES OF THEIR FIRST THREE CHOICES TO 58,783 (68.83 PER CENT).
"IN ADDITION, 2,708 PUPILS HAVE BEEN SUCCESSFUL IN OBTAINING DISCRETIONARY PLACES WHICH THEY APPLIED FOR EARLIER THIS YEAR," THE SPOKESMAN SAID.
UNDER THE SSPA SCHEME, PARTICIPATING PUPILS WILL DE GIVEN THREE YEARS FREE EDUCATION UP TO SECONDARY 3 LEVEL AND NO TUITION FEES WILL BE CHARGED.
ALLOCATION RESULTS WILL BE AVAILABLE FROM PUPILS' PRIMARY SCHOOLS ON TUESDAY.
THE SPOKESMAN ADVISED PUPILS TO FOLLOW ARRANGEMENTS LAID DOWN BY THEIR RESPECTIVE PRIMARY SCHOOLS WHEN COLLECTING THEIR ADMISSION SLIP AND ALLOCATION SLIP (ADHERED TO THEIR PRIMARY 6 IDENTIFICATION FORM) FROM THEIR SCHOOLS.
"THEY SHOULD