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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1988
SUMMER TEACHING PROGRAMME ADVOCATED
SUMMER
TEACHING EDUCATION INSTITUTES WAS LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY
PROGRAMME
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A IDEA THE
OF INTRODUCING SUPPLEMENT A THREE-YEAR COURSE IN TERTIARY SUPPORTED BY DR THE HON DANIEL TSE IN THE (WEDNESDAY}.
INSTITUTIONS WOULD IF THE PROPOSAL WERE ACCEPTED, EQUIVALENT OF ONE HALF OF AN ACADEMIC YEAR'S TEACHING TIME WITHIN TIME SPAN OF A THREE-YEAR COURSE, DR TSE SAID IN EDUCATION COMMISSION REPORT NO. 3.
GAIN THE
THE
THE DEBATE ON
THE
FOR THERE WOULD BE NO NEED
HE ADDED. ACCOMMODATE THE PROPOSAL,
CAPITAL
ON EXPANSION
CAMPUS
TO
FACILITIES
OF
UTILISED
THE DURING THE
TERTIARY
LONG
"THE EXISTING VERY COSTLY
EFFICIENTLY MORE
INSTITUTIONS WOULD SUMMERS, HE SAID.
"
BE
DR TSE SAID THE EXPERIENCE OF GIVEN THE BILINGUAL NATURE OF HONG KONG'S RIGOUR AND DEPTH OF THE BRITISH HONOURS DEGREE WERE TO BE TEACHING TIME WOULD SCHEDULE COULD PROVIDE.
BE
REQUIRED
THAN
A
CONVENTIONAL
COLLEGE WAS THE BAPTIST
TERTIARY SYSTEM,
THE KEPT, MORE THREE-YEAR
THAT
IF
ADDED
TERMS OF BIGHT WEEKS'
TIME TEACHING
FOR
TO A OTHER
IT HAD BEEN ESTIMATED THAT TWO SUMMER DURATION EACH SHOULD GIVE SUFFICIENT THREE-YEAR COURSE, YET WITH PLENTY OF SUMMER HOLIDAYS LEFT ACTIVITIES, HE ADDED.
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IDEA. BUT I WOULD THE NO. 3 REPORT HAS SUGGESTED A SIMILAR PROPOSE THAT THE ADDITIONAL RESOURCES BE GIVEN TO THE INSTITUTIONS AS TO BE AND NOT SOMETHING PART OF THE
BUDGET PROVISION, REGULAR
BY THE INSTITUTIONS AS SPECIAL NEEDS CONTENDED FOR AND JUSTIFIED ARISE," HE SAID.
TO DESIGN A ONE-YEAR
TO FILL EDUCATIONALLY
THE GAP AND A FOUR-YEAR DEGREF
DR TSE ALSO SAID IT WAS MOST DIFFICULT
SATISFACTORY COURSE WHICH WOULD BE BETWEEN A FIVE-YEAR SECONDARY SCHOOL SYSTEM COURSE.
SCHOOL
REMAIN THEN BF HE SAID.
SYSTEM IS ΤΟ IF "THEREFORE,
THE SECONDARY UNCHANGED, I WOULD PREFER A TWO-YEAR SIXTH FORM WHICH SHOULD MODIFIED TO FIT INTO THE PRESENT TREND IN DEGREE EDUCATION,
H
DEGREE EDUCATION"
UNIVERSITY OF WHICH THE
IN "PRESENT TREND DR TSE EXPLAINED THAT BY HE HAD IN MIND THE BROADENED CURRICULUM WHICH BOTH THE HONG KONG AND THE CHINESE UNIVERSITY HAD ADVOCATED, AND TO BAPTIST COLLEGE HAD SUBSCRIBED.
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