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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1990
PLANNED INCREASE IN F.6 PLACES WILL MEET REQUIREMENTS
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常
SIXTH
THE GOVERNMENT IS CONFIDENT THAT THE PLANNED INCREASE IN
THESE INTO
PLACES WILL MEET THE FORM PLACES AND THE PULL-THROUGH REQUIREMENTS OF THE TERTIARY EDUCATION EXPANSION PROGRAMME IN TERMS OF AND MANPOWER, THE HON STUDENT NUMBERS, THE SECRETARY FOR EDUCATION K.Y. YEUNG, INFORMED THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).
DAVID CHEUNG, MR IN A WRITTEN REPLY TO A QUESTION BY THE HON
OF YEUNG STATED THAT THE GOVERNMENT PLANNED TO INCREASE THE PROVISION
PRESENT TIME SUBSIDISED SECONDARY 6 PLACES FROM 18,270 PLACES AT THE TO 22,240 PLACES IN SEPTEMBER 1992 AND TO 23,000 IN SEPTEMBER 1994.
BE
SOUGHT
THE
IN "FUNDS WILL EXPENDITURE TO START CONVERSION WORKS MEET THIS TARGET," HE SAID.
1991-92
DRAFT
ESTIMATES FOR ADDITIONAL CLASSROOMS
OF
ΤΟ
LINE WITH THE PAPER ON WHITE 1978
THE
ΤΟ EDUCATION, TERTIARY
PROVIDE OF THE STUDENTS UP TO ONE-THIRD
MR YEUNG SAID THE INCREASE IN PROVISION WAS IN
THE STATED IN GOVERNMENT'S POLICY, DEVELOPMENT OF SENIOR SECONDARY AND SUBSIDISED SIXTH FORM PLACES FOR ENTERING SUBSIDISED SECONDARY 4 PLACES TWO YEARS PREVIOUSLY.
PLACES,
THE INCREASE IN THE
"TOGETHER WITH NON-SUBSIDISED PUBLIC SECTOR WILL PRODUCE SOME 26,000 SIXTH FORM PLACES IN 1994.
"SET AGAINST THE TARGET OF
FIRST
PLACES IN THE SAME YEAR, THIS PROVISION OF SIXTH
FIRST DEGREE FORM PLACES WOULD
15,000
YEAR,
ENABLE OPPORTUNITY
SIX
10 OUT OF ΤΟ
FOR STUDY
STUDENTS
LEAVING
SIXTH
ΤΟ FORM
A DEGREE
COURSE
AT
THE
INSTITUTIONS," HE SAID.
HAVE AN TERTIARY
WITH
AND
THE
ALL SIXTH FORM PLACES AS TO MR CHEUNG'S QUESTION ON WHETHER FOR THE CURRENT SCHOOL YEAR HAD BEEN OCCUPIED AND THE COMPARISON
ALL GOVERNMENT THAT OF LAST YEAR, MR YEUNG SAID A HEAD-COUNT IN
IN AIDED SECONDARY SCHOOLS CONDUCTED BY THE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
PER 87
CENT OF THE 1990
THAT INDICATED FIRST WEEK OF SEPTEMBER
79 PER CENT LAST SECONDARY 6 PLACES HAD BEEN FILLED, COMPARED WITH YEAR.
EARLY OCTOBER WHEN TECHNICAL
INSTITUTES
"THE PERCENTAGE DROPPED TO 81 PER CENT IN
OF EDUCATION AND THE POLYTECHNICS, COLLEGES ANNOUNCED THEIR STUDENT INTAKE.
IS
CAUSED BY
SECONDARY
6
WHEN
THEY
AT OTHER INSTITUTIONS, RECEIVE
NOTIFICATION
OF
"THIS WASTAGE OCCURS ANNUALLY AND ENTRANTS SIMULTANEOUSLY APPLYING FOR COURSES AND THEN DROPPING OUT OF SCHOOL ACCEPTANCE, MR YEUNG EXPLAINED.
"
MR YEUNG SAID
GOVERNMENT'S
NEXT
GIVEN
TASK WAS
THE
то
TREND ACHIEVE
OF
UNDER-ENROLMENT,
THE
THE FULLEST
POSSIBLE
UTILISATION OF SECONDARY 6 PLACES
IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR.
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