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Action called on Education Commission Report No 6
The Board of Education (BOE) has called on the Government to act without' delay on the recommendations in the recently published Education Commission Report No 6 in order to improve the quality of education.
At a meeting of the board today (Monday), the Chairman of the Education Commission, Prof Rosie Young, briefed BOE members on the recommendations in Education Commission Report No 6.
Board members were told that there would be a six-week public consultation and members of the public had been encouraged to submit their views.
BOE members generally felt that, in preparing the report, the Education Commission Working Group on Language Proficiency had conducted wide consultation on various sectors and that the report was very comprehensive.
However, they suggested that the Government should consider making preparations, while awaiting the final report, to carry out remedial measures proposed in Report No 6 to prepare for the full implementation of those recommendations.
On a separate issue, the Chief Executive of the Curriculum Development Institute, Dr Julian Leung, informed the meeting that an Ad hoc Working Group on the Review of the Guidelines on Civil Education was formed in March with members from schools, tertiary institutes, Education Department and organisations active in promoting civil education.
The draft guidelines were finalised last month. It will be issued to schools and concerned groups for consultation.
"A series of seminars on the Guidelines will be organised in January and February 1996 to brief schools and institutions concerned on the draft Guidelines and to collect their preliminary feedback. The plan is to submit the final draft of the Guidelines to the Curriculum Development Council for consideration next April. If endorsed, the new Guidelines will be adopted for use in September 1996," Dr Leung added.
Meanwhile, BOE members noted a progress report prepared by the Advisory Committee on School Administration and Finance.
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