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WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 1987

+SINCE THEN, HOWEVER, ADDITIONAL SUBJECTS AND OTHER CURRICULAR CHANGES HAVE BEEN INTRODUCED, SUCH AS COMPUTER STUDIES AND REMEDIAL TEACHING, WHICH REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SPECIAL ROOMS AND A REVIEW HAS BEEN MADE OF THE DESIGN OF THE STANDARD SCHOOL TO MEET THIS REQUIREMENT.+

+THE OPPORTUNITY HAS ALSO BEEN TAKEN TO INCREASE THE NUMBER OF STANDARD CLASSROOMS TO PERMIT A REDUCTION IN THE NUMBER OF FLOATING CLASSES IN EACH SCHOOL, HE SAID.

MR PAGLIARI INFORMED THE COUNCIL THAT A NEW DESIGN FOR A STANDARD SECONDARY SCHOOL WAS BEING CONSIDERED WHICH WOULD HAVE 26 CLASSROOMS, 14 SPECIAL ROOMS AND THREE SMALLER ROOMS FOR REMEDIAL OR SPLIT-CLASS TEACHING.

+IF ADOPTED, THIS WOULD EASE THE ADMINISTRATIVE INCONVENIENCE WHICH THE FLOTATION SYSTEM CAUSES TO THE SCHOOL MANAGEMENT, HE ADDED.

POLICE EFFECTIVE IN TACKLING MTR INDECENT ASSAULTS

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ALTHOUGH THE NUMBER OF REPORTED INDECENT ASSAULTS WITHIN MTR STATION PRECINCTS HAS INCREASED, THE POLICE ARE TACKLING THE PROBLEM EFFECTIVELY, THE SECRETARY FOR SECURITY, THE HON DAVID JEAFFRESON, SAID TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

REPLYING TO A QUESTION BY THE HON MRS ROSANNA TAM IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, MR JEAFFRESON SAID THAT 16 WOMEN REPORTED THAT THEY HAD BEEN INDECENTLY ASSAULTED WITHIN THE MTR SYSTEM IN 1986 AND 12 CASES WERE REPORTED UP TO THE END OF APRIL THIS YEAR.

+MORE OFTEN THAN NOT, THE POLICE MANGE TO ARREST THE ASSAILANT,+ HE SAID.

HE POINTED OUT THAT SINCE THE BEGINNING OF 1983, EIGHT OUT OF TEN ASSAILANTS HAD BEEN ARRESTED.

+FOR THE 12 CASES THIS YEAR, ALL THE CULPRITS WERE CAUGHT,+

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