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"To modernise school management, we are promoting the school management initiative," he said.
Under this initiative, he said, schools had more systematic planning and evaluation of activities, and more flexibility in the use of resources.
The continued promotion of mother tongue teaching, the strengthening of teaching and learning of Putonghua, native-English speaking teacher scheme and intensive English courses for the sixth formers were measures to equip young people with a high level of proficiency in both English and Chinese, Mr Kwan added.
Apart from briefing the Mission on the aim of school education in Hong Kong and the education system, Mr Kwan also introduced the salient features of Hong Kong's public education system in terms of equal educational opportunities for all, strong community involvement and continuous improvement.
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Revised fees for using country parks facilities
Fees for using some facilities in country parks will be revised under the Country Parks Ordinance from June 28 this year.
The revision, set out in the Country Parks and Special Areas (Amendment) Regulation 1996, has been endorsed by the Country Parks Committee of the Country and Marine Parks Board and was approved by the Secretary for the Treasury.
A spokesman of the Agriculture and Fisheries Department (AFD) today (Wednesday) noted that the fees are set, according to the general government policy, at levels sufficient to recover the full costs of providing the services.
The last costing review for fees was conducted in 1993-94 and the current revision with an increase of about 9 per cent was based on the movement of the Government Consumption Expenditure Deflator.