Tuesday, July 10, 1973
LONG-RANGE PLAN FOR SECONDARY EDUCATION
The Board of Education is making progress in formulating comprehensive
proposals for the development policy of secondary education, Mr. Charles Lowe,
acting Director of Education said today,
Speaking at the graduation ceremony of the Pui Ching Middle School,
he said McKinsey and Company had given invaluable advice on the way in which
such a programme should be prepared.
"In fact, the department has been working extremely hard both to
keep the existing system functioning as smoothly as possible and to plan for
the future, not only to provide places in concrete buildings on scarce sites,
but also to work out what should actually happen in classrooms, special rooms
and laboratories," Mr. Lowe said.
schools.
He emphasised that this was a far greater problem than building the
The Director added that 54,000 Form I places in government aided
and assisted schools would be available in September this year for a 12-year-old
age group of some 110,400. This means accommodating 49 per cent of the age group.
In mentioning some educational achievements, Mr. Lowe referred to the
new Unified Code of Aid for secondary schools which embodied a much more
enlightened view of the role of the school and realised that a secondary school
could no longer be aided by a code originally designed to suit the needs of
primary schools.
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