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WEDNESDAY, CTOBER 11, 1989

WOULD

PHASE OUT

BOUGHT

THE GOVERNMENT

SIR DAVID SAID THAT PLACES IN PRIVATE SCHOOLG BY THE END OF THE 1990'S.

WE WILL IMPROVE THE STANDARDS "IN THE MEANTIME,

THEY WILL HAVE A GOOD CHANCE SCHOOLS SO THAT, WHEN THE TIME COMES, JOINING THE NEW SUBSIDY SCHEME," HE SAID.

OF

THESE

OF

ALSO

SAID THAT

THE

GOVERNMENT AGREED

WITH THE MUST BE SEEN AS A

SYSTEM. OUR EDUCATION

OF TEACHING IN

SIR DAVID EDUCATION COMMISSION THAT PRE-PRIMARY EDUCATION

THAN

PART OF RATHER

ESSENTIAL DESIRABLE HOWEVER, THERE WAS A CLEAR NEED TO IMPROVE STANDARDS KINDERGARTENS.

"WE THEREFORE PROPOSE TO IMPROVE THE BASIC TRAINING COURSE KINDERGARTEN TEACHERS AND INTRODUCE A NEW FEE REMISSION SCHEME.

"THIS WILL REPLACE THE EXISTING SCHEME OF ALLOW ADDITIONAL HELP TO BE GIVEN TO LESS WELL-OFF CHILDREN IN KINDERGARTENS," HE SAID.

SIR DAVID

SAID THAT IN LAYING DOWN EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM, IMPROVEMENTS TO THE

SPECIAL

THAT DIFFICULTIES OVERLOOK THE

FOR

FEE ASSISTANCE

PARENTS WHO

AND HAVE

BROAD

PROGRAMMES

FOR THE GOVERNMENT MUST NOT INDIVIDUAL SCHOOLS FACED.

SOME FOR INSTANCE HAD SEVERE PROBLEMS OF NOISE.

BY AIRCRAFT HAD ALREADY BEEN THIRTY-SEVEN SCHOOLS AFFECTED

AND A NEW PROGRAMME THAT WOULD SOUND-PROOFED AND AIR-CONDITIONED

117 AIDED AND GOVERNMENT COVER A TOTAL OF

SCHOOLS AFFECTED BY UNACCEPTABLE LEVELS OF TRAFFIC NOISE WAS STARTING THIS YEAR.

"WE AIM TO COMPLETE IT DURING THE EARLY 1990'S,

SAID

SIR DAVID

THE EDUCATION PROPOSALS

EXPANSION OF THE ESPECIALLY FOR THE FURTHER INEVITABLY MEANT SOME OTHER SECTORS WOULD, FOR THE TO TAKE / LOWER PRIORITY.

* HE ADDED.

HE

HAD OUTLINED, TERTIARY SECTOR. TIME BEING. NEED

SOME "IN PRACTICAL TERMS, THIS MEANS SLOWER PROGRESS IN

IN THEMSELVES. HAVE TO TAKE AREAS WHICH, HOWEVER DESIRABLE PLACE IN THE QUEUE.

OTHER THEIR

MONEY ARE NEVER "DECISIONS ON THE RIGHT ALLOCATION OF PUBLIC

A EASY. BUT I HOPE THAT MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL, AND THE COMMUNITY AS

OUTLINED ARE THE RIGHT WHOLE, WILL AGREE THAT THE PROPOSALS I HAVE MIX FOR

THE RESOURCES MEETING OUR MORE PRESSING NEEDS WITHIN AVAILABLE," HE SAID.

PROVISION OF TRAINING THE GOVERNOR ALSO POINTED OUT THAT THE

AS SOME 80 FOR THOSE ALREADY AT WORK WAS ALSO AN IMPORTANT PRIORITY PER CENT OF THOSE WHO WOULD MAKE UP HONG KONG'S WORKFORCE IN THE 2000 HAD ALREADY COMPLETED THEIR EDUCATION.

"MANY POTENTIALLY APPLIED IN OUR INDUSTRIES.

USEFUL

YEAR

TECHNOLOGIES ARE NOT

YET

BEING

"THE GOVERNMENT