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"Only a small percentage of students seek jobs immediately," he added.
Practical schools provide students with an equal opportunity for proper schooling through a special curriculum and avert their tendency to drop out from mainstream education.
"Practical school provide students that cannot adapt with traditional curriculum with education opportunities. We should not discriminate against them," Yeung Wai- kit's mother said.
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Secondary 6 admission procedure streamlined
The Education Department announced today (Thursday) that the Secondary 6 (86) admission procedure for the 1996-97 school year will be shortened to 8-1/2 working days from nine in 1995-96.
A Principal Education Officer, Mr C K Tam, said that a total of about 24,060 places will be available in September 1996 for application by students, compared with 23,790 in the previous year.
He said the five-stage procedure for admission to S6 for the 1996-97 school year is basically the same as that for the 1995-96 school year, except that the duration of Stage V, which is for central allocation of places, will be shortened by half a day to 4-1/2 days.
"The shortening of the Stage V procedure is to tie in with the provision of a two-week pre-S6 Intensive English Programme for some students."
"In addition, three more centres will be made available for central allocation, bringing the total number of centres to eight," Mr Tam said.
The Education Department has produced a new leaflet and a summary table containing admission details, addresses and telephone numbers of the 19 District Education Offices to help students seek further information.
Mr Tam said schools are being asked to collect the leaflet and summary for distribution to S5 students.