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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1987

"THIS HAS, AT TIMES, CREATED IMBALANCES BETWEEN THE NUMBERS PUPILS AND SECONDARY SCHOOL PLACES IN DIFFERENT AREAS," HE SAID.

SOME 10

NEW

AND SECONDARY

PREVOCATIONAL

COMPLETED IN TIME FOR THE START OF THE ADDITIONAL 70 BY 1993, HE SAID.

OF

BE

WOULD SCHOOLS SEPTEMBER 1988 TERM AND AN

"MOST OF THEM WILL BE IN THE NEW TERRITORIES,

TUEN MUN AND SHA TIN,

EXISTING SCHOOLS WILL

PARTICULARLY IN

BE MOVED FROM IN THE NEW

SOME "IN ADDITION, SUBSTANDARD PREMISES IN THE URBAN AREAS TO NEW BUILDINGS TERRITORIES," HE ADDED.

OF EDUCATION

WOULD RE

ON EDUCATION IN GENERAL, SIR DAVID SAID THE COST

AND TO GROW

EMPHASIS TO THE PUBLIC PURSE WOULD CONTINUE PLACED ON FURTHER IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF EDUCATION.

SENIOR

FORMS SECONDARY EXPECTED DEMAND."

EDUCATION WITH

TAKING UP 18 PER CENT OF

HE FORM 3 SAID,

PLACES UP TO "WE HAVE 100 PER CENT PROVISION OF FREE

AND PLAN TO PROVIDE ENOUGH PLACES (THAT IS TO THE AGE OF 15)

IN

AND TECHNICAL

THE

THE BUDGET,

INSTITUTIONS

TO

MEET

GROWTH RAPID GROWTH HAD MEANT PROVIDING AS MANY

NOTING THAT THE GOVERNMENT ALSO HAD AMBITIOUS PLANS FOR IN THE TERTIARY SECTOR, SIR DAVID SAID SUCH

EMPHASIS HAD BEEN ON THAT IN RECENT YEARS THE PLACES AS POSSIBLE.

"EVEN SO, THE STANDARDS ACHIEVED IN

PUBLIC EXAMINATIONS HAVE

THE INCREASINGLY IN

FUTURE WE SHOULD PLACE THE BEEN MAINTAINED.

++ HE SAID, EMPHASIS ON FURTHER IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF OUR EDUCATION,

ON THE DAVID SAID

WAS THE GOVERNMENT COMMISSION, TO ENCOURAGE THE GREATER USR OF

ΤΟ TURNING

THE LANGUAGE ISSUE, SIR RECOMMENDATION OF THE EDUCATION INTRODUCING A NUMBER OF MEASURES CHINESE IN THE CLASSROOM.

HOWEVER, HE ADDED THAT A HIGH STANDARD OF

HONG

PROSPERITY KONG'S CONTINUING MAINTAINED AS REMAINING AN INTERNATIONAL CENTRE.

DEPENDED

ENGLISH HAD ΤΟ BE ITS ON

A PILOT SCHEME ΤΟ "FOR THIS REASON WE HAVE STARTED

PROVIDE

WITH SECONDARY SCHOOLS

NATIVE ENGLISH SPEAKING TEACHERS FROM IN THE UNITED KINGDOM OVERSEAS AND HAVE ORGANISED LANGUAGE COURSES FOR LOCAL SRCONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS OF ENGLISH.

I

AND

SAID ON TECHNICAL EDUCATION AND INDUSTRIAL TRAINING, SIR DAVID

TECHNICAL

IN LARGEST

INSTITUTE WITH THE OPENING OF THE NEWEST

FULL-TIME PLACES FOR CRAFT AND CHAL WAN LAST MONTH, THE NUMBER OF

UNDER 4,000 IN 1982 ΤΟ TECHNICIAN COURSES HAD BEEN INCREASED FROM OVER 10,500 NOW.

/PART-TIME PLACES