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UNIFICATION A LONGER-TERM QUESTION
WORKING PARTY ON
EDUCATION
WILL
ADDRESS
THE
OF STAFFING STANDARDS, IN SUBSEQUENT MEETINGS,
K.Y. YEUNG, TOLD THE
KINDERGARTEN THE ISSUES OF WHOLE-DAY NURSERY CLASSES, CONTROL TEACHER: PUPIL RATIOS AND SPACE RATIOS SECRETARY FOR EDUCATION AND MANPOWER, THE HON LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).
SAID
REGARDING QUESTION
REPLYING TO A QUESTION FROM THE HON HUI YIN-FAT, MR YEUNG
FINALISED ITS RECOMMENDATIONS ONCE THE WORKING PARTY HAD THESE ISSUES, IT WOULD TURN ITS ATTENTION TO THE LONGER-TERM OF UNIFICATION OF CHILD CARE CENTRES AND KINDERGARTEN EDUCATION.
ΤΟ CONSIDER
"IT IS NOT POSSIBLE FIRST SORTED OUT THE FOREGOING ISSUES,
UNIFICATION WITHOUT HAYING HE SAID IN HIS WRITTEN REPLY.
TIMES SINCE DECEMBER
HE SAID THE WORKING PARTY HAD MET THREE 1989 AND HAD EXAMINED ASPECTS OF TEACHER TRAINING AND OVER-ENROLMENT.
PRE-PRIMARY
MR YEUNG SAID THE WORKING GROUP ON UP IN OCTOBER 1986, COMPLETED ITS TASK LAST SEPTEMBER.
THAT
PARTLY
SERVICES, SET
ITS ADVICE
PROPOSALS
AND TO
ON
STRENGTH THE
OF HE SAID RECOMMENDATIONS, THE GOVERNMENT PUT FORWARD A NUMBER OF THE FXECUTIVE COUNCIL LAST OCTOBER.
OF
"THE PROPOSALS FOR IMPROVING OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE TRAINING
A NEW FEE REMISSION SCHEME KINDERGARTEN TEACHERS, FOR INTRODUCING
DEPARTMENT AND FOR THE ADOPTION OF ADMINISTERED BY THE EDUCATION
HONOURABLE MEMBERS," RECOMMENDED SALARY SCALES ARE NOW WELL KNOWN TO MR YEUNG SAID.
THE PROPOSALS WERE DEBATED AT SOME LENGTH IN RECENT WEEKS.
COUNCIL
ENDORSED ALSO HAS THE LONG TERM, THE
THAT,
THE VIEW
UNIFICATION
"BUT EXECUTIVE HOWEVER DESIRABLE IT MAY BE IN CHILD CARE SERVICES WITH KINDERGARTEN EDUCATION WOULD BE DIFFICULT ACHIEVE IN THE SHORT TERM.
OF
TO
+
IT
WAS
KINDERGARTENS CENTRES AND STANDARDS OF THE TWO TYPES OF INSTITUTIONS THEIR RESPECTIVE MODUS OPERANDI ARE DIFFERENT,
RECOGNITION MR YEUNG SAID THAT DIFFERENCES THAT A CONSCIOUS DECISION WAS TAKEN TO INTRODUCE A OF FEE REMISSION TO HELP NEEDY FAMILIES WITH CHILDREN IN KINDERGARTEN.
COUNCIL AND THE IN ARRIVING AT THE DECISION, BOTH EXECUTIVE
INTO ACCOUNT THE FACT THAT
CARE CHILD ADMINISTRATION HAVE TAKEN
THAT DIFFERENT PURPOSES, SERVE
THE DIFFER WIDELY, AND THAT
++ HE SAID.
PARTLY IN
OF
THESE SYSTEM
DOES NOT RULE "THE ADMINISTRATION, POSSIBILITY OF UNIFICATION BETWEEN THE TWO TYPES OF LONG TERM," HE SAID.
HOWEVER,
OUT THE SERVICES IN THE
WITH
ACCORDINGLY, THE WORKING PARTY ON KINDERGARTEN EDUCATION,
HAD BEEN SET UP ΤΟ BOTH OFFICIAL AND NON-OFFICIAL REPRESENTATION, STUDY, INTER ALIA, THE FEASIBILITY OF ULTIMATE UNIFICATION.
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