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MONDAY, JULY 11, 1334
SECONDARY SCHOOL PLACES ALLOCATION RESULTS OUT TOMORROW
THE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT REMINDED PARENTS OF PRIMARY SIX PUPILS TO COLLECT THE RESULTS OF SECONDARY SCHOOL PLACES ALLOCATION FOR THEIR CHILDREN FROM THEIR SCHOOLS TOMORROW (TUESDAY).
A DEPARTMENT SPOKESMAN SALD PUPILS SHOULD FOLLOW THE ARRANGEMENTS SET DOWN BY THEIR SCHOOLS AND RETURN TO COLLECT THE ADMISSION SLIP AND ALLOCATION SLIP (ATTACHED TO THEIR PRIMARY SIX IDENTIFICATION FORM) FROM THEIR SCHOOLS.
THE REGISTRATION PERIOD THIS YEAR IS FROM JULY 18 TO
19.
ALL PUPILS MUST REPORT DURING THE REGISTRATION PERIOD TO THE SECONDARY SCHOOLS TO WHICH THEY HAVE BEEN ALLOCATED. FAILURE TO DO SO WILL MEAN THAT THEY HAVE CHOSEN NOT TO TAKE UP THE PLACES ALLOCATED.
IN CASE BOTH THE PUPILS AND THE PARENT/GUARDIAN ARE AWAY FROM HONG KONG DURING THE REGISTRATION PERIOD, THEY SHOULD AUTHORISE IN WRITING REPRESENTATIVES TO COMPLY WITH THE REGISTRATION PROCEDURES ON THEIR BEHALF.
COPLES OF LETTERS OF AUTHORISATION CAN BE OBTAINED FROM PRIMARY SCHOOL HEADS.
THEIR
IN CASE OF GENUINE DIFFICULTIES, THE PARENTS OR PIPILS CONCERNED SHOULD INFORM THE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT'S SECONDARY SCHOOL PLACES ALLOCATION SECTION BEFORE THE END OF THE REGISTRATION PERIOD SO THAT ALTERNATIVE ARRANGEMENTS CAN BE MADE.
PARENT'S SEEKING TRANSFERS FOR THEIR CHILDREN SHOULD DIRECTLY APPLY TO THE SCHOOLS THEY PREFERRED.
ACCEPTANCE IS AT THE SOLE DISCRETION OF THE SCHOOLS CONCERNED. SUCCESSFUL APPLICANTS HAVE TO RETRIEVE THE ADMISSION SLIPS FROM THE SECONDARY SCHOOLS AT WHICH THEY HAVE REGISTERED DURING THE REGISTATION PERIOD AND HAND THEM TO THE SCHOOLS THEY WISH TO TRANSFER TO.
PARENTS/FUPILS ARE REMINDED THAT BY RETRIEVING THEIR ADMISSION SLIPS, THEIR REGISTATION WITH THE SCHOOLS WILL BE CANCELLED.
THE SPOKESMAN SAID AMONG THE 85,263 PUPILS ALLOCATED SECONDARY ONE PLACES THIS YEAR, 9,940 PUPILS (11.7 PER CENT) WERE ALLOCATED PLACES IN SCHOOLS WHICH ADOPT CHINESE AS THE MEDIUM OF INSTRUCTION EXCEPT FOR THE ENGLISH SUBJECT.
A TOTAL OF 24,193 PUPILS (28.5 PER CENT) WERE IN ENGLISH-MEDIUM SCHOOLS WHERE ALL SUBJECTS, OTHER THAN CHINESE HISTORY, ARE TAUGHT IN ENGLISH.
GIVEN PLACES CHINESE AND
ANOTHER 23,860 PUPILS (28.1 PER CENY) RECEIVED PLACES IN SCHOOLS AT WHICH MOST SUBJECTS ARE TAUGHT IN ENGLISH, EXCEPTIONS ARE CHINESE AND CHINESE HISTORY, CULTURAL SUBJECTS SUCH AS PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND MUSIC, AND PRACTICAL SUBJECTS SUCH AS HOME ECONOMICS AND DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY.
A TOTAL OF 3,764 PUPILS (4.4 PER CENT) WERE ALLOCATED PLACES IN SCHOOLS WHERE THE MEDIUM OF INSTRUCTION IS DETERMINED, BY CLASS AND 22,181 (26.5 PER CENT) TO SCHOOLS WHERE THE TEACHING MEDIUM IS DETERMINED BY SUBJECT.
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