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"In order to minimise the impact of fee increases on parents as a result of the Government's new regulatory requirements on kindergarten from September 1995, all kindergartens are eligible to apply for a subsidy based on a rate of $695 per pupil per year, provided that the annual school fee per pupil in the 1994-95 school year does not exceed $8,300 and the fulfilment of other conditions for joining KSS.
"The regulatory requirements on all kindergartens include the revised academic qualification for kindergarten teachers and at least 40 per cent trained teachers in each session of a kindergarten," the spokesman added.
End/Friday, November 10, 1995
Four more language projects receive funding
Funds totalling $3.81 million have been approved for four language improvement projects in the second round of the second allocation exercise of the Language Fund.
The Fund was set up in May last year. It was a trust fund held under the Director of Education Incorporation Ordinance with an initial allocation of $300 million.
The main objective of the Fund is to support proposals and initiatives which will raise the standards in Chinese (including Putonghua) and English, enhance existing efforts and meet temporary shortfalls in language teaching resources. In addition, it also designs to encourage research into problem areas and initiation of new approaches.
Of the four successful applications which aim at improving language proficiency of teachers, students and members of the public, two are English language projects and two Chinese language/Putonghua projects.
A spokesman of the Language Fund Secretariat said: "There is a good combination of research, teaching and learning resource materials as well as reading award project."