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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1988

"THE

EXPANSION PLANNED

PLACES AT THE SENIOR OF SCHOOL

OF SUCH US

LEAGUE

DEVELOPED INTO THE SECONDARY LEVEL WILL BRING

AND JAPAN COUNTRIES AS THE UNITED KINGDOM, CANADA, THE UNITED STATES WHERE GROSS ENROLMENT RATIOS RANGE FROM 85 PER CENT UPWARDS.'

H

PAST DECADE, MR LAN BUILT 218 SCHOOLS

WHILE SCHOOLS

ON THE SCHOOL BUILDING PROGRAMME IN THE SAID IT HAD BEEN PHENOMENAL AS THE GOVERNMENT HAD

WERE 118 DURING THE PERIOD. OF THESE, OTHER 100 WERE PRIMARY SCHOOLS.

SECONDARY

THE

HE SAID ANOTHER 147 SCHOOLS WOULD BE BUILT IN

BE SECONDARY OF THESE WILL YEARS. SEVENTY-FIVE REMAINING 72 PRIMARY SCHOOLS,

THE NEXT SEVEN

AND SCHOOLS

THE

OF THESE SCHOOLS

ALL THESE WENT TO

"THE CONSTRUCTION GOVERNMENT'S PLAN TO MEET REGIONAL DEMAND FOR PLACES IMPROVE THE SCHOOLING ENVIRONMENT,

PART OF THE AS WELL AS TO

COMMITMENT TOWARDS

EDUCATION AND ITS BELIEF IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION, HE SAID.

BEEN HAS

MR LAN SAID.

SHOW THE GOVERNMENT'S

NEW SEAFARERS BILL IN PIPELINE

A COMPREHENSIVE

BILL, SEAFARERS

PREPARATION

WHICH WILL EMBRACE ALL LEGISLATION APPERTAINING TO SEAFARERS, IS CURRENTLY UNDER AND IS EXPECTED TO BECOME LAW IN APPROXIMATELY TWO YEARS' TIME.

THIS

WAS DISCLOSED

HIGGINSON, WHEN

MR MARINE, DIRECTOR THE BY

OPENED THE INTERNATIONAL HE OFFICIALLY

REGIONAL SEAFARERS' ASIA/PACIFIC WORKERS' FEDERATION MEETING AT THE HONG KONG MERCHANT NAVY OFFICERS' GUILD MORNING.

OF

GERRY TRANSPORT COMMITTEE THIS (MONDAY)

MR HIGGINSON SAID

AMENDMENTS TO

OFFICE RECRUITING SEAMEN'S

OF THE BILL AS (SRO) PROCEDURES WOULD BE REFLECTED IN THE DRAFTING

AND COMMITTEES CONSTITUTED ALL BOARDS FOR WOULD A REQUIREMENT

SHIPOWNING THEREUNDER TO BE TRIPARTITE COMPRISING EMPLOYERS, SEAFARERS AND THE GOVERNMENT.

REPRESENTATIVES OF

"LEGISLATIVE PROVISION HAS BEEN MADE IN RESPECT OF THE

WITH

HEALTH, PROVISIONS FOR THEIR

SAFETY AND WELFARE OF SEAFARERS TOGETHER REPATRIATION UNDER SPECIFIC CIRCUMSTANCES," MR HIGGINSON SAID.

THIS WOULD LEAVE THE DOOR OPEN

FOR

MADE IN RESPECT OF THE CONVENTIONS 74TH (MARITIME) SESSION OF THE INTERNATIONAL LABOUR ORGANISATION (ILO) HELD IN SEPTEMBER LAST YEAR, HE ADDED.

AND

PROVISION FURTHER

ADOPTED RESOLUTIONS

TO

BE

AT

THE

MR HIGGINSON