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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1988

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IT IS CLEAR MEMBERS, WHICH THE

"LISTENING TO MEMBERS' SPEECHES THIS, AFTERNOON, THAT WHILE THERE IS STRONG CRITICISM OF THE REPORT FROM SOME

CAREFUL EXPLANATIONS OTHERS HAVE BEEN SATISFIED BY COMPANY HAS PROVIDED.

THE

THAT BOTH VIEWS THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL WHEN

"I BELIEVE, HOWEVER, I SHOULD ASSURE MEMBERS WILL OF COURSE BE TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT BY CONSIDERING THE REPORT".

COULD CONFIRM THAT THOSE

SIR DAVID THEN TOLD COUNCILLORS HE VIEWS HAD BEEN TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT BY THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL.

WHOLE-DAY OPERATION OF PRIMARY SCHOOLS ENCOURAGED

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IT IS ALREADY THE

GOVERNMENT'S

WHOLE-DAY

SCHOOLS TO CONVERT TO

ENCOURAGE

PRIMARY THE

SHING-WAH,

ΤΟ POLICY OPERATION WHEREVER FEASIBLE, SECRETARY FOR EDUCATION AND MANPOWER, THE HON DOMINIC WONG TOLD THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY),

IN A WRITTEN REPLY TO A QUESTION BY THE

HON HUI YIN-FAT, MR

WONG SAID 38 SCHOOLS HAD SO CONVERTED DURING THE PAST THREE YEARS.

"CONVERSION

то WHOLE-DAY

OPERATION

POSSIBLE PHYSICALLY

DAY, OR WHEN THE NOT EXCEED THE

IS WHENEVER A SCHOOL BUILDING IS VACANT FOR HALF THE COMBINED ENROLMENT OF BOTH BI-SESSIONAL SCHOOLS DOES PERMITTED CAPACITY OF THE SCHOOL BUILDING, MR WONG SAID.

"

WHICH COULD DIRECTOR OF THE SCHOOL AUTHORITIES TO

THERE WERE 47 SCHOOLS HE SAID THAT AT PRESENT EXTEND OPERATION INTO THE OTHER HALF OF THE DAY, AND THE EDUCATION WAS MAKING EFFORTS TO PERSUADE CONVERT TO WHOLE-DAY OPERATION.

THAT THE COMBINATION OF TWO WHILE NOTING

BUILDING SHARING THE SAME WONG SAID EFFORTS WERE LIKEWISE OPERATION.

SCHOOL SESSIONS DIFFICULTIES,

MR

RATHER PRESENTED

MORE BEING MADE ΤΟ ENCOURAGE WHOLE-DAY

COULD ВВ USED TO IN PRACTICE THERE ARK

"WHILE IN THEORY ALL THE VACANT CLASSROOMS HASTEN THE EXTENSION OF WHOLE-DAY SCHOOLING, VARIOUS CONSTRAINTS," HE ADDED.

TO REQUIRE CHILDREN TAKE UP

HE POINTED OUT THAT IT WAS NOT DESIRABLE TO CHANGE SCHOOLS; NOR WAS IT DESIRABLE TO FORCE CHILDREN TO PLACES OUTSIDE THEIR NORMAL CATCHMENT AREA.

/"THE ADMINISTRATION