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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1988

WHICH

OPPORTUNITIES

CONTROL,

"THE DIRECT SUBSIDY SCHEME OFFERS ALL ALONG CAME UNDER GOVERNMENT

PURSUE INSPIRED DYNAMISM AND SELF-DISCIPLINE, POTENTIALS, MR HUI SAID.

"FOR THE PRIVATE SCHOOLS, THE PROMISE FOR

FOR

TO

SCHOOLS,

EXERCISE

DEVELOP

CREATIVE

THOSE QUALIFIED ΤΟ

BE PUT ON PAR WITH AIDED SCHOOLS SERVES AS A STIMULUS TO REFORMS.

WILL

"THE MUCH-NEEDED FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FROM GOVERNMENT

AND ENTHUSIASM ΤΟ ACTIVELY INSTIL PRIVATE SCHOOLS WITH CONFIDENCE

HEALTHY COMPETITION BETWEEN UPGRADE THEIR STANDARDS, THUS ACHIEVING THE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SECTORS.

*

FOR THE MORE ENTERPRISING PRIVATE SCHOOLS, SCHEME OFFERED A CHANCE TO TURN OVER A NEW LEAF.

FURTHERMORE, THE SCHEME ALSO FELL INTO LINE TREND OF DECENTRALISATION OF SOCIAL SERVICES.

MR HUI ADDED, THE

WITH THE PRESENT

ALLOWING NOT ONLY LOW-INCOME GOVERNMENT AID WAS

ONE PROBLEM WAS THAT BY BUT THERE WERE PROBLEMS. SCHOOLS TO CHARGE THEIR OWN FEES, THE DIRECT SUBSIDY SCHEME BROUGHT

AGAINST STUDENTS FROM ABOUT DISCRIMINATION

THAT PRINCIPLE FAMILIES, BUT ALSO VIOLATED THE ONLY GIVEN TO NON-PROFIT SCHOOLS.

TO CHOOSE THEIR OWN

ALLOCATION SYSTEM,

STUDENTS THEREBY

ALSO, THE FREEDOM OF SCHOOLS

SCHOOL PLACE

COULD UPSET THE SECONDARY RESULTING IN A RETURN OF ELITISM IN SECONDARY EDUCATION.

ON

EDUCATION,

THE

AND

PUBLIC

MR HUI ADDED THAT THE DISCRETION GIVEN TO SCHOOLS TO DECIDE CURRICULUM POSED

A BALANCED A THREAT

UNDERMINE CONTROL

THEIR DECREASED GOVERNMENT

ΤΟ WOULD

ACCOUNTABILITY OF SECONDARY SCHOOLS.

TURNING TO PRIVATE

MR SCHOOLS,

HUI EXPRESSED CONCERN OVER AND THEIR ABILITY TO EMULATE THEIR COUNTERPARTS IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR

THE FIXED TIME LIMIT TO UPGRADE EFFICIENTLY THEIR STANDARDS WITHIN USING LIMITED PRIVATE RESOURCES.

"GIVEN THAT

ONLY 10

NON-PROFIT

PRIVATE

SCHOOLS HAVE

QUALIFY

BEEN ONLY ONE ACCEPTED FOR THE BOUGHT PLACE SCHEME, IT IS ESTIMATED THAT

WILL SCHOOLS

FOR THE THE

67 PRIVATE THIRD OF

EXISTING

DIRECT SUBSIDY SCHEME," HE STANDARDS OF SCHOOL PREMISES SET BY THE SAID.

BETTER DEAL FOR EDUCATION WAS

HE ALSO SAID THAT PRIVATE SCHOOLS DESERVED A THE ROLE THEY HAD PLAYED WHEN THE NINE-YEAR COMPULSORY INTRODUCED BACK IN 1978.

SECONDARY SCHOOLS WAS A MR HUI CALLED ON THE THE PROPOSED DEGREE OF AUTONOMY DESIGN FOR

PRIVATISATION OF WARNING THAT THE SIGNIFICANT ISSUE WITH OMINOUS IMPLICATIONS, GOVERNMENT TO PROVIDE MORE DETAILED INFORMATION ON DIRECT SUBSIDY SCHEME AND TO SPELL OUT THE EXACT IN

CHARGING, FEE SECONDARY SCHOOLS.

STUDENT SELECTION

AND

CURRICULUM

/ON TERTIARY