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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1978

GROWING DEMAND FOR PREVOCATIONAL EDUCATION

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THE ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION (TECHNICAL) MR. DANIEL WATERS, SAID TODAY THAT ABOUT 17,000 APPLICATIONS HAVE BEEN RECEIVED FOR THE APPROXIMATELY 3,000 NEW PREVOCATIONAL SCHOOL PLACES WHICH WILL BECOME AVAILABLE IN SEPTEMBER THIS YEAR.

SPEAKING AT THE OPENING OF THE JOINT SPORTS MEET OF THE PREVOCATIONAL SCHOOLS AT THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT STADIUM, MR. WATERS SAID, THIS MEANS THAT EACH AVAILABLE NEW PREVOCATIONAL SCHOOL PLACE IN THE COMING ACADEMIC YEAR IS OVER-SUBSCRIBED BY APPROACHING SIX TO ONE.

+THIS PROVES WITHOUT DOUBT THAT PREVOCATIONAL SCHOOLS ARE STILL POPULAR, ALTHOUGH PLACES WILL BE AVAILABLE IN THE COMING ACADEMIC YEAR, IN OTHER TYPES OF SCHOOLS, FOR ALL OUR PRIMARY 6 LEAVERS,+ HE ADDED.

MR. WATERS NOTED THAT THE PREVOCATIONAL SCHOOLS, BESIDES IMPARTING TECHNICAL EDUCATION IN BREADTH RATHER THAN IN DEPTH, ALSO PROVIDE A +WELL-ROUNDED GENERAL EDUCATION+ UP TO FORM. THREE LEVEL.

IN ADDITION TO TECHNICAL AND GENERAL EDUCATION, HE POINTED OUT, SPORTS, GAMES AND OTHER EXTRA-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES ARE BY NO MEANS FORGOTTEN AS IS EVIDENCED BY THE SPORTS MEET.

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NOTE TO EDITORS:

CHIEF SECRETARY TO VISIT TAI PO

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THE CHIEF SECRETARY, SIR DENYS ROBERTS, WILL VISIT TAI PO DISTRICT ON THURSDAY (FEBRUARY 23) AFTERNOON TO SEE THE PROGRESS OF ITS DEVELOPMENT.

ACCOMPANIED BY THE TAI PO DISTRICT OFFICER, MR. CLIVE OXLEY SIR DENYS WILL VISIT THE YUE KOK TEMPORARY HOUSING AREA, THE PLOVER COVE COUNTRY PARK AND THE FORMER TANNERIES SITE IN SHEUNG SHUI.

HE WILL ALSO MEET MEMBERS OF THE TAI PO RURAL COMMITTEE FOR A DISCUSSION ON MATTERS OF LOCAL INTEREST.

YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO SEND YOUR REPRESENTATIVES TO COVER THE CHIEF SECRETARY'S VISIT, PRESS TRANSPORT WILL BE PROVIDED. TWO GOVERNMENT VANS, AM 2088 AND AM 3174, WILL LEAVE FROM BEHIND THE TSIM SHA TSUI POST OFFICE AT 1.15 P.M. ON THURSDAY.

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