WEDNESDAY, JULY 5, 1978
FOR THIS REASON, MR. LEE SAID, PUBLIC PRESSURE TO INCREASE PLACES IN FORMS IV AND VILL CONTINUE UNLESS THE BENEFITS OF A CERTIFICATE OF EDUCATION LINKED TO ONE'S EARNING POWER ARE ALTERED. THE SAME APPLIES TO A-LEVEL, POLYTECHNIC AND UNIVERSITY EDUCATION.
RESTRICTING PUBLICLY FINANCED PLACES DOES NOT HALT THE GROWTH OF THOSE WHO SEEK TO QUALIFY IN THESE ACADEMIC FIELDS EUT MERELY FORCES THE ASPIRANTS INTO PRIVATE EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS, HE ADDED.
SPEAKING AFTER MR. LEE, THE OTHER FIVE UNOFFICIAL COUNCILLORS PUT FORWARD THEIR INDIVIDUAL VIEWS AND IN PLACES SUPPLEMENTED HIS POINTS.
DR. RAYSON HUANG: BRING POST-SECONDARY COLLEGES INTO EDUCATION
SYSTEM
DR. THE HON. RAYSON HUANG WAS CONCERNED OVER THE POSITION IN THE LATER STAGES OF THE EDUCATION SYSTEM, FROM FORM V ONWARDS, WHICH, HE SAID, IS THE POINT OF THE NOTORIOUS BOTTLE-NECK+.
HE SAID THIS IS AN AREA IN WHICH THE POST-SECONDARY COLLEGES COULD MAKE A USEFUL CONTRIBUTION, AND HE THOUGHT IT IS TIME THAT THESE COLLEGES BE BROUGHT INTO THE EDUCATION SYSTEM IN ORDER THAT THEY CAN CONTRIBUTE TO THE COMMON EFFORT.
HE SUGGESTED THEREFORE THAT THEY GEAR THEIR ENTRY POINT TO THE CERTIFICATE OF EDUCATION LEVEL, AND BROADEN THEIR EDUCATIONAL EASE EY OFFERING COURSES AT FORM VÍ LEVEL, LEADING TO A-LEVEL OR A COLLEGE QUALIFICATION AFTER TWO YEARS' STUDY, AND THAT THESE COURSES BE FOLLOWED BY HIGHER COURSES, ALSO OF TWO YEARS' DURATION, LEADING TO ANOTHER COLLEGE QUALIFICATION.
THE COURSES OFFERED WOULD BE MAINLY IN THE LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCE AND IN COMMERCIAL SUBJECTS, BUT THERE COULD WITH ADVANTAGE BE DIVERSIFICATION INTO TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL FIELDS FOR THESE POST-SECONDARY, SUE-DEGREE COURSES FINANCIAL SUPPORT FROM GOVERNMENT WOULD SEEM JUSTIFIED.
IN ORDER TO BRING ABOUT MOBILITY AMONG THE VARIOUS INSTITUTIONS OF TERTIARY EDUCATION, IT SHOULD BE POSSIBLE FOR STUDENTS WITH A-LEVEL QUALIFICATIONS TO GAIN DIRECT ENTRY INTO THE SENIOR COURSES IN THE COLLEGES, WHILE SOME OF THE IR GRADUATES MIGHT FIND THEIR WAY TO THE UNIVERSITIES, WHICH IT IS HOPED WOULD KEEP AVENUES OPEN FOR THEIR ADMISSION AT APPROPRIATE LEVELS,
DR. HUANG SAID IT CAN BE ACCEPTED THAT THESE COLLEGES MAY WISH TO WORK TOWARDS DEGREE COURSES IN A LIMITED NUMBER OF DISCIPLINES, ESPECIALLY THOSE NOT BEING PROVIDED FOR BY THE TWO UNIVERSITIES, AND SOME PUEL IC SYSTEM OF VALIDATION OF SUCH COURSES WOULD HAVE TO BE ESTABLISHED TO ENSURE ADEQUATE SAFEGUARDS AND COMPARABILITY OF STANDARDS.
/DR. HUANG
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