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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1989

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ANOTHER WORRY HE INWARD-LOOKING",

HAD

WAS THAT

THE

COMMUNITY

MIGHT

BECOME

"IT COULD BE MORE INTERESTED IN TRADE THE REST OF THE WORLD.

AMONGST MSS THAN WITH

"THIS

INWARD APPROACH WOULD

PRINCIPLES

MOST-FAVOURED NATION AND THE MULTILATERALISM ENSHRINED IN THE

AND

HONG WHICH AGREEMENT ON TARIFFS SUBSCRIBES, MR LEUNG SAID.

"

HE ALSO POINTED OUT

TRADE

THAT

HARMONISATION WOULD

BE LIKELY TO THE USA AND

BENEFIT THE LARGER MULTINATIONAL MANUFACTURERS OF EUROPE, JAPAN THAN MOST OF HONG KONG'S SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED MANUFACTURERS.

ERODE

THE

ΤΟ (GATT)

KONG

OF THE GENERAL FULLY

SUFFICIENT SUBSIDISED SECONDARY 4 PLACES IN 1991

SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL THERE WOULD BE SUFFICIENT SUBSIDISED

THE 15 YAERS AGE PLACES FOR ABOUT 95.2 PER CENT OF THE CHILDREN IN

EDUCATION, MR Y.T. LI, SAID TODAY GROUP BY 1991, THE DIRECTOR OF (THURSDAY).

SPEAKING AT A JOINT DINNER

FURTHER

CLUBS, WITH NINE YEARS FREE THEIR STUDIES BEYOND OWN SCHOOLS OR VOCATIONAL TRAINING

MEETING OF SEVERAL LIONS MR LI SAID ALL CHILDREN WHO HAD BEEN PROVIDED

то WISHING AND COMPULSORY EDUCATION SECONDARY 3 WOULD BE ABLE TO ATTEND SECONDARY 4 IN THEIR OR OTHER SCHOOLS, OR IN TECHNICAL INSTITUTES CENTRES.

A

(DSS)

WOULD BE SCHEME IN THE MEANTIME,

DIRECT SUBSIDY

ON A PER PUPIL BASIS BUT NOT INTRODUCED AND GOVERNMENT SUBSIDY,

PRIVATE EXCEEDING THE COST OF AN AIDED PLACE, WOULD BE GIVEN TO THOSE

STANDARDS WHILE THE THE REQUIRED THAT HAD ATTAINED SCHOOLS

BUYING PLACES BY STAGES,

FROM THOSE LESS GOVERNMENT HAD STOPPED,

MR LI DESIRABLE PRIVATE SCHOOLS UNDER THE BOUGHT PLACE SCHEME (BPS), SAID.

ITS REPORT NO.3 "THE EDUCATION COMMISSION HAS RECOMMENDED IN

A STRONG THAT THE BFS SHOULD BE PHASED OUT BY THE YEAR 2000 AND THAT

PROVIDE AN AND INDEPENDENT PRIVATE SECTOR SHOULD BE SET UP SO AS TO

AND CONTRIBUTE POSITIVELY TOWARDS ALTERNATIVE TO THE PUBLIC SECTOR

HE ADDED. THE DIVERSITY OF OUR EDUCATION SYSTEM,

OF

TO ASSIST BPS SCHOOLS TO PROGRESSIVELY ATTAIN THE STANDARDS

PRACTICABLE IMPROVEMENTS AN ATDED SCHOOL. MR LI SAID APPROPRIATE AND

WOULD DE INTRODUCED THROUGH A TO FACILITIES AND SCHOOL MANAGEMENT

THE SYSTEM OF CONTRACTS TO ENABLE SCHOOLS TO JOIN THE DSS BY THE TIME PHASING OUT OF THE BPS BEGAN.

/ON THE