WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1988
5
NO CHANGE SHOULD BE CONTEMPLATED UNLESS THERE WAS JUSTIFICATION FOR DOING SO, SHE SAID.
VERY STRONG
A
UNIVERSITY
COURSE
SHOULD BE
UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG'S
BASIC COMMENTING ON WHETHER
SAID THE THREE OR FOUR YEARS, MRS CHOW ARGUNENT FOR A FOUNDATION YEAR WAS UNCONVINCING,
SHE COULD NOT SEE THE LOGIC OF THE UNIVERSITY TAKING WORK OF THE SCHOOLS TO RESOLVE THE PROBLEM OF QUALITY.
OVER THE
MRS CHOW SAID SHE BELIEVED THAT THE PROBLEM COULD BE SOLVED
WAS A PEROGATIVE OF SETTING THE ENTRANCE QUALIFICATION, WHICH UNIVERSITY ANYWAY.
BY
THE
REQUIREMENTS,
THE UNIVERSITY WOULD BE AND DEPTH OF BREADTH THE
"IN SPELLING OUT ITS
THE SCHOOLS
TO
HELPING
DETERMINE MATRICULATION EDUCATION," SHE SAID.
MRS CHOW
CRITICISED
THE PROVISIONAL
ACCEPTANCE SCHEME STUDENTS
INTRODUCED BY THE CHINESE UNIVERSITY UNDER WHICH SECONDARY 6 WERE ACCEPTED ON THE STRENGTH OF THEIR FORM 5 EXAMINATION RESULTS.
-
WAS MADE TO SERVE TWO EXAMINATION IN SO DOING, THE FORM 5 PURPOSES INSTEAD OF ONE AS A SCHOOL LEAVING QUALIFICATION AND AS UNIVERSITY ENTRANCE EXAMINATION.
A
"THIS DEVELOPMENT DEFEATS THE WELL AS THE PREPARATORY FUNCTION OF SECONDARY 6 AND 7,
PURPOSE
OF
SCHOOL
LEAVING SHE SAID.
AS
THE WITH
THAT THE RECOMMENDATION REPORT'S MRS CHOW AGREED
BE DETERMINED IN ACCORDANCE LENGTH OF ANY INDIVIDUAL COURSE SHOULD WITH EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS BY THE TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS THEMSELVES.
THAT THE
LENGTH
OF FIRST DEGREE SAME FOR ANY
THINK HOWEVER, I DO NOT COURSES AT ALL INSTITUTIONS SHOULD IN PRINCIPLE BE THE GIVEN SUBJECT," SHE SAID.
HER REASONS WERE THAT THE AUTONOMY OF
OF TRADITIONS
DIFFERENT RESPECTED, AND THE SPECIAL AND SYMPATHETIC CONSIDERATION.
IN
OF SUPPORT
INSTITUTIONS
INSTITUTIONS
SHOULD
WARRANTED
BE
THE NEW DIRECT MRS CHOW ALSO SPOKE SCHEME, DESCRIBING IT AS "A MOST IMAGINATIVE SOLUTION" TO THE OF HONG KONG'S UNSATISFACTORY SCHOOL SYSTEM.
PROGRESS
IN THE WHOSE
KONG'S SHE POINTED OUT THAT HONG DECADES HAD BROUGHT WITH IT A WIDENING MIDDLE CLASS AND SOPHISTICATION DEMANDED MORE FLEXIBILITY AND VARIETY IN THE SCHOOL SYSTEM.
AS A RESULT, THE PRESENT SYSTEM HAD BECOME MEET PARENTS' ASPIRATIONS FOR THEIR CHILDREN.
FAR
SUBSIDY. PROBLEM
LAST TWO AFFLUENCE
OF EMPHASIS
ססיT
RIGID TO
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