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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1987

UK COUNCIL TO CONDUCT INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW

OF POST-SECONDARY COLLEGE

THE GOVERNMENT HAS

THE INVITED

UNITED KINGDOM COUNCIL FOR 'NATIONAL ACADEMIC AWARDS (CNAA) TO CONDUCT AN INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW

REGISTERED PRESENT ONE

AT OF THE TWO INSTITUTIONS POST-SECONDARY COLLEGES ORDINANCE, THE MANPOWER, THE HON RON BRIDGE, SAID IN THE {WEDNESDAY).

OF UNDER THE SECRETARY FOR EDUCATION AND LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY

IN A WRITTEN REPLY TO A QUESTION BY THE BRIDGE SAID A VALIDATION TEAM FROM THE CNAA WOULD NEXT WEEK TO EXAMINE ITS FACILITIES

HON DESMOND LEE, MR VISIT THE COLLEGE AND TEACHING RESOURCES AND TO AND WEAKNESSES AND

MAKE A REPORT TO THE GOVERNMENT ON ITS STRENGTHS ON THE LEVEL AND WORTH OF ITS EXIT QUALIFICATIONS.

WHICH OTHER

WITH THE 2-2-1 SYSTEM FOR THE COLLEGE WAS OPERATING

THE PARTIAL GOVERNMENT FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE WAS GRANTED, WHILE

CHOSEN TO CONTINUE ΤΟ OFFER FOUR-YEAR REGISTERED INSTITUTION HAD DIPLOMA COURSES WITHOUT SUCH ASSISTANCE, MR BRIDGE EXPLAINED.

"AS STATED IN THE 1978 WHITE PAPER ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF SENIOR

2-2-1 THE

SYSTEM

THE ENABLES SECONDARY AND TERTIARY EDUCATION,

TARGETS FOR COLLEGE OPERATING IT TO CONTRIBUTE TOWARDS SIXTH FORM AND TERTIARY EDUCATION PLACES,

GOVERNMENT'S HE SAID.

THE COLLEGE SECONDARY

MR BRIDGE NOTED THAT IN THE CURRENT ACADEMIC YEAR CONCERNED WAS PROVIDING 422 PLACES AT THE SECONDARY SIX AND SEVEN LEVELS AND 707 PLACES AT THE HIGHER DIPLOMA LEVEL.

"IN

1987, 87 PER CENT OF THE

OR TWO STUDENTS OBTAINED PASSES IN EXAMINATION.

MORE

"AT

THE SAME

COLLEGE

TIME, ACCORDING TO

IN RESPECT OF

SEVEN SECONDARY COLLEGE'S

SUBJECTS IN THE A-LEVEL

THE EMPLOYMENT ITS

HIGHER

1986

SURVEY DIPLOMA

ΤΟ

CONDUCTED BY THE GRADUATES, 95 PER CENT HAD EITHER OBTAINED EMPLOYMENT OR PROCEEDED FURTHER STUDIES WITHIN FOUR MONTHS OF GRADUATION," HE SAID.

REGARDING THE FORMAL ASSESSMENT OF THE COLLEGE, THE WOULD EXPECT TO RECEIVE THE CNAA'S REPORT EARLY NEXT YEAR, CONCLUDED.

MR

GOVERNMENT BRIDGE

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