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Tuesday, January 15, 1974

HONG KONG EMBARKING ON BIGGEST SECONDARY EDUCATION EXPANSION

The Board of Education will be asked, in due course, to take a

view on the various comments being collated on the Education Green Paper

and advise the government, the Director of Education, Mr. Jack Canning

said today.

"A White Paper will then be prepared which should be a blue print

for expansion of secondary education," he said on the occasion of the

foundation stone laying ceremony of the Szeto Ho Secondary School of the

Five Districts Business Welfare Association.

"If the targets are approved by the government it will mean that

Hong Kong will be embarking on the biggest expansion facilities in the

secondary sector of education that it has ever tackled.

"It is also clear that if the targets are to be achieved they will

be achieved only with the help of the responsible people of Hong Kong and

the various non-profit making agencies which are now active in the field

of education," the Director said.

Mr. Canning pointed out that organisations such as the Five Districts

Business Welfare Association would, through their co-operation with the

government, largely determine the success of the programme,

The proposed secondary school, he said, was a solid re-assurance

that the association was prepared to do its part in the expansion programme.

The association, under the leadership of Sir Kenneth Ping-fan Fung,

is very actively involved in education in Hong Kong. At present it is

offering education to some 10,000 students at primary and middle school level.

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