Saturday, December 1, 1973
MORE CANDIDATES TO STT FOR SCHOOL CERTIFICATE EXAMINATION
23,000 More Classroom Seats Needed For Two Subjects
Some 55,000 candidates are expected to sit for the Chinese
Language and English Language subjects in next year's Certifiente of
Education examination to be held in May.
This number is far in excess of hall accommodation, a spokesman
for the Education Department said today.
These two subjects comprise nine papers and three mornings will
be required for the examinations. It will be necessary therefore to provide
about 23,000 classroom seats in addition to hall space.
The only way in which this can be done, without delaying the
publication of results, will be to close some 74 government and aided
secondary schools on May 17 and 20 - Friday and Monday respectively," the
spokesman said.
As the schools affected will not, in any case, be having classes
on May 18, which is a Saturday, pupils in these schools who are not Certificate
of Education examinations candidates will have two extra days holiday in
1974 so that their classrooms may be used for the examinations.
The spokesman pointed out that in the past great difficulty had
been experienced in providing sufficient suitable accommodation for large
numbers of candidates entering for the examinations.
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