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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1988

ON TERTIARY EDUCATION

AND

THE UNIVERSITY ADMISSION SYSTEM, SECONDARY SCHOOL MR HUI SAID THAT HE PERSONALLY SUPPORTED A SIX-YEAR

EDUCATION FOR THE REASON SYSTEM FOLLOWED BY A FOUR-YEAR UNIVERSITY THAT THIS WOULD RELIEVE EXAMINATION PRESSURES ON LOCAL STUDENTS.

HONG

WOULD BRING FURTHERMORE, A FOUR-YEAR UNIVERSITY DEGREE COURSE

INTO LINE WITH SYSTEMS IN

KONG'S

TERTIARY

OVERSEAS COUNTRIES.

"WHILE I FULLY

EDUCATION

MOST

APPRECIATE THE ARGUMENTS FOR RETAINING THE BROAD EDUCATION EXISTING SIXTH FORM SYSTEM, I TEND TO BELIEVE THAT A

SECONDARY SCHOOL GRADUATES TAILORED TO THE ALL-ROUND DEVELOPMENT OF SHOULD BEGIN WITH THE UNIVERSITY," HE SAID.

REMAINED

FOR

THE

EDUCATION

AUTHORITIES

ΤΟ

WITH

HE SAID THAT IT REVIEW AND DESIGN THE SECONDARY SCHOOLS CURRICULUM IN ACCORDANCE THE A-LEVEL SYLLABUS AND THE PRACTICAL REQUIREMENTS OF SCHOOL LEAVERS.

80 PER CENT MR HUI SAID THAT REQUIRING ONLY MINIMAL

AS FOR THE CHINESE UNIVERSITY, WHICH WAS GETTING OUT OF ITS INTAKE FROM THE ANGLO-CHINESE SCHOOLS, THE PROPOSED 6+6+4 SYSTEM FITTED IN NICELY, ADMINISTRATIVE CHANGES IN ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS.

HONG IT WAS PROVISIONAL

NOTING THAT THE FOUNDATION YEAR PROPOSED BY UNIVERSITY OF KONG CARRIED WITH IT TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES, MR HUT SAID THAT

THE

ΤΟ UNIVERSITIES TWO NECESSARY FOR

ABANDON THEIR ACCEPTANCE SCHEMES TO MAKE WAY FOR A UNIFIED ENTRANCE SYSTEM.

PROVISIONAL YEARS BEFORE

PRESENT HE SUGGESTED THAT THE UNIVERSITIES CONTINUE WITH THEIR

INTERIM ACCEPTANCE SCHEME, FOR AN SYSTEMS, MINUS THE

FEW

AND SYSTEM ADMISSION UNIFORM PERIOD OF A TERTIARY EDUCATION PROGRAMME WERE IMPLEMENTED.

A

A

FOUR-YEAR DEGREE COURSE SUPPORTED

AN EDUCATION SYSTEM OF FIVE YEARS OF SECONDARY SCHOOL PLUS YEAR OF FORM 6 AND A FOUR-YEAR UNIVERSITY COURSE WAS SUPPORTED BY HON MARTIN LEE IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

THIS SYSTEM OF 5-1-4 WAS FAVOURED BY THE TWO LEE SAID IN THE DEBATE ON THE EDUCATION REPORT NO. 3.

AS FOR THE HONG KONG WHICH FAVOURED A SYSTEM OF LENGTHS OF THEIR

COURSES

MATRICULATION COURSE.

IN

POLYTECHNIC AND THE

HE 5-2-3,

SAID THEY THE LIGHT OF THE

ONE THE

UNIVERSITIES, MR

CITY POLYTECHNIC, COULD ADJUST THE PROPOSED ONE-YEAR

MR LEE