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THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 1989

"THE FACT THAT FINANCIAL PROVISION FOR IS NOT EVEN ONE PER CENT OF THE TOTAL BUDGET RIDICULOUS, HE SAID.

PRE-PRIMARY

EDUCATION QUITE

ON EDUCATION IS

IF IT WAS NOT THE GOVERNMENT'S POLICY ΤΟ PROVIDE ADEQUATE FINANCIAL BACKING ΤΟ PRE-PRIMARY EDUCATION, A

WAS POLICY WHICH SUBJECT TO INTENSE ARGUMENT, IT WAS ONLY RIGHT FOR THE GOVERNMENT ALLOW OPERATORS TO CHARGE HIGHER FEES SO THAT THEY COULD QUALITIES OF THEIR SERVICE, HE SAID.

TO IMPROVE THE

FINANCED WHEN KINDERGARTENS WERE NOT ADEQUATELY

AND TEACHERS FEE ASSISTANCE WOULD NOT TRAINED, TO GIVE

MEAN SUBSIDISING THE UNDESIRABLE PRODUCT. THIS WAS CUSTOMER

CART TO BUY AN BEFORE THE HORSE, MR CHEUNG SAID.

PUTTING THE

IMPERATIVE

TURNING TO PRIMARY EDUCATION, MR CHEUNG SAID IT WAS THAT THE GOVERNMENT TOOK IMMEDIATE AND CONSTRUCTIVE STEPS TO BEGIN PHASING OUT BI-SESSIONAL SCHOOLS STARTING WITH PRIMARY FIVE AND SIX.

AS ON SECONDARY SCHOOL EDUCATION, MR CHEUNG SAID THAT

SOCIETY AND THE HAD BECOME MORE PLURALISTIC, MORE COMPLEX,

INSTITUTIONS OF BECOME MARRIAGE AND FAMILY HAD

DISINTEGRATED, CHILDREN HAD BECOME MORE AND MORE DIFFICULT TO MANAGE AND TEACH.

A TEACHER'S DOING

OF OTHER THAN TEACHING, A SUBSTANTIAL PROPORTION

CHILDREN, AND VERY OFTEN TIME WAS SPENT ON HANDLING PROBLEM THIS WITHOUT THE SUPPORT AND COOPERATION OF THE PARENTS, HE SAID.

MORAL TIME,

CIVIC

AT THE SAME

EDUCATION, SEX EDUCATION, EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT HAD BEEN INCLUDED IN THE TEACHERS' WORKLOAD, PARTICULARLY SO IN THE PAST FIVE YEARS, HE ADDED.

UNDER SUCH CIRCUMSTANCES, THE GOVERNMENT COULD MUCH MORE THAN THE PROVISION OF AN ADDITIONAL TEACHER ALL SECONDARY SCHOOLS, MR CHEUNG SAID.

AND SHOULD DO OF CHINESE

TO

HE SUGGESTED THAT MORE CLERKS SHOULD BE EMPLOYED IN SCHOOLS REDUCE TEACHERS' CLERICAL DUTIES AND MORE NECESSARY EQUIPMENT SUCH PHOTOCOPYING MACHINES SHOULD BE PURCHASED FOR SCHOOLS.

то

AS

BE PROVIDED ΤΟ EACH WERE WELL LOOKED

HE ALSO SUGGESTED THAT A VICE-PRINCIPAL SCHOOL TO ENSURE THAT ADMINISTRATION-WISE, SCHOOLS AFTER IN THE ABSENCE OF PRINCIPALS.

STEPS

THE

THE

THUS

WITH THE TURNING TO THE SANDWICHED CLASS, MR CHEUNG SAID THAT

OF PROFESSIONALS "BRAIN DRAIN"

AND MIDDLE MANAGEMENT PEOPLE,

BETTER TO OFFER

CARE ΤΟ GOVERNMENT MUST TAKE CONCRETE

FEEL BETTER AND SANDWICHED CLASS SO THAT THEY COULD GENUINELY HAVE A STRONGER SENSE OF BELONGING TO THE COMMUNITY.

/HE SUGGESTED