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HONG KONG HOMERNMENT INFORMATION SERVICES

DAILY

INFORMATION BULLETIN

Tuesday, July 18, 1972

NEED FOR MORE SECONDARY TECHNICAL SCHOOLS

The Education Department is seeking further support and help

from voluntary and religious bodies to implement its target of providing

secondary technical education for four per cent of those in the 12 - 16

age group by 1976.

Disclosing this today, a spokesman for the department said:

"We are trying to encourage these organisations to establish as many

schools as possible, to be aided by the Government."

He pointed out that government and aided projects approved so

far could provide such schooling for only 2.7 per cent of the estimated

541,200 children in the age group by the target date.

Many sponsoring bodies hesitated to take on the operation of

these schools because of financial implications and lack of expertise

in this field.

There are now 13 secondary technical schools in Hong Kong

eight run by the Government and the others subsidised or assisted by the

Government, with a total enrolment of about 9,000.

A new school, the North Kwai Chung Government Secondary Technical

School, will be opened in September for another 920 students.

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