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Wednesday, October 31, 1973

The Report emphasised that "quantitative targets involving the

provision of increased places should not be achieved at the expense of

the qualitative aims of Hong Kong's education system."

The Board also recommended that rotation was not considered

tance

acceptable because of the strains imposed upon staff of schools and the

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disruption of family life.

As regards "floating" classes, the Board said this arrangement

already existed in standard Secondary Technical Schools. It was also

used in existing Prevocational Schools.

On financing school buildings the Board noted that the Government's

declared policy was that expansion of education, wherever possible, would

be in the aided sector.

It therefore recommended that the Government's contribution to the

capital costs of new building projects should be increased from 80 per cent

to 90 per cent and exceptionally, to 100 per cent.

In the case of secondary technical and prevocational schools built

in housing estates, the Board said financial assistance should also be

given to the cost of furniture and equipping such schools.

The Board urged the Government to take practical steps to reduce

the time taken to allocate sites for school projects.

On public examinations the Board recommended that every effort

should be made to minimise the deleterious effects which these examinations

had on pupils and their study programmes in Secondary Schools.

Efforts should also be made to generate among students, teachers

and all concerned a better understanding of the functions of examining,

and to improve methods of learning assessment.

It stressed...

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