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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1988

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NO CHANGE SHOULD BE CONTEMPLATED UNLESS THERE WAS JUSTIFICATION FOR DOING SO, SHE SAID.

VERY STRONG

A

UNIVERSITY

COURSE

SHOULD BE

UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG'S

BASIC COMMENTING ON WHETHER

SAID THE THREE OR FOUR YEARS, MRS CHOW ARGUNENT FOR A FOUNDATION YEAR WAS UNCONVINCING,

SHE COULD NOT SEE THE LOGIC OF THE UNIVERSITY TAKING WORK OF THE SCHOOLS TO RESOLVE THE PROBLEM OF QUALITY.

OVER THE

MRS CHOW SAID SHE BELIEVED THAT THE PROBLEM COULD BE SOLVED

WAS A PEROGATIVE OF SETTING THE ENTRANCE QUALIFICATION, WHICH UNIVERSITY ANYWAY.

BY

THE

REQUIREMENTS,

THE UNIVERSITY WOULD BE AND DEPTH OF BREADTH THE

"IN SPELLING OUT ITS

THE SCHOOLS

TO

HELPING

DETERMINE MATRICULATION EDUCATION," SHE SAID.

MRS CHOW

CRITICISED

THE PROVISIONAL

ACCEPTANCE SCHEME STUDENTS

INTRODUCED BY THE CHINESE UNIVERSITY UNDER WHICH SECONDARY 6 WERE ACCEPTED ON THE STRENGTH OF THEIR FORM 5 EXAMINATION RESULTS.

-

WAS MADE TO SERVE TWO EXAMINATION IN SO DOING, THE FORM 5 PURPOSES INSTEAD OF ONE AS A SCHOOL LEAVING QUALIFICATION AND AS UNIVERSITY ENTRANCE EXAMINATION.

A

"THIS DEVELOPMENT DEFEATS THE WELL AS THE PREPARATORY FUNCTION OF SECONDARY 6 AND 7,

PURPOSE

OF

SCHOOL

LEAVING SHE SAID.

AS

THE WITH

THAT THE RECOMMENDATION REPORT'S MRS CHOW AGREED

BE DETERMINED IN ACCORDANCE LENGTH OF ANY INDIVIDUAL COURSE SHOULD WITH EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS BY THE TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS THEMSELVES.

THAT THE

LENGTH

OF FIRST DEGREE SAME FOR ANY

THINK HOWEVER, I DO NOT COURSES AT ALL INSTITUTIONS SHOULD IN PRINCIPLE BE THE GIVEN SUBJECT," SHE SAID.

HER REASONS WERE THAT THE AUTONOMY OF

OF TRADITIONS

DIFFERENT RESPECTED, AND THE SPECIAL AND SYMPATHETIC CONSIDERATION.

IN

OF SUPPORT

INSTITUTIONS

INSTITUTIONS

SHOULD

WARRANTED

BE

THE NEW DIRECT MRS CHOW ALSO SPOKE SCHEME, DESCRIBING IT AS "A MOST IMAGINATIVE SOLUTION" TO THE OF HONG KONG'S UNSATISFACTORY SCHOOL SYSTEM.

PROGRESS

IN THE WHOSE

KONG'S SHE POINTED OUT THAT HONG DECADES HAD BROUGHT WITH IT A WIDENING MIDDLE CLASS AND SOPHISTICATION DEMANDED MORE FLEXIBILITY AND VARIETY IN THE SCHOOL SYSTEM.

AS A RESULT, THE PRESENT SYSTEM HAD BECOME MEET PARENTS' ASPIRATIONS FOR THEIR CHILDREN.

FAR

SUBSIDY. PROBLEM

LAST TWO AFFLUENCE

OF EMPHASIS

ססיT

RIGID TO

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