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WEDNESDAY, MAY 9, 1990

SOME 33 ADDITIONAL SCHO, MOREOVER, WOULD HAVE TO ACCOMMODATE THE ADDITIONAL CLASSES INVOLVED, AT AN OF $802 MILLION AT TODAY'S PRICES.

WILL TEACHERS "IN ADDITION, EXTRA EMPLOYED, AND THIS WILL ALSO BE COSTLY. THE THESE PROPOSALS HAS NOT YET BEEN CONSIDERED, ADDED.

TO BE BUILT ESTIMATED COST

NEED TO BE TRAINED AND PROVISION OF FUNDS FOR LET ALONE AGREED, HE

THAT AGAINST

MR YRUNG POINTED OUT

THIS BACKGROUND, IMPROVEMENT OF PRE-PRIMARY EDUCATION ON THE SCALE THAT MEMBERS TO SEE HAD NECESSARILY TO TAKE ITS PLACE IN THE QUEUE.

"BUT

IS THAT

NOT TO SAY THAT INSENSITIVE OR UNSYMPATHETIC," HE STRESSED,

THE

IT

THE WISHED

GOVERNMENT IS

EITHER

$11 MILLION SET AND THAT THE FOR FEE REMISSION

MR YEUNG SAID MEMBERS MIGHT BELIEVE THAT THE ASIDE FOR THE NEW FEE REMISSION SCHEME WAS INADEQUATE, LEVEL OF HOUSEHOLD INCOME DETERMINING ELIGIBILITY BORDERED ON MEANNESS.

MEANS OF "THE FACT IS THAT WE HAVE DRASTICALLY SIMPLIFIED THE

IMPROVED TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES PROVIDING ASSISTANCE, INCREASED AND

DOUBLED THE NUMBER FOR TEACHERS AND, MOST IMPORTANTLY, PROBABLY

HE SAID. NEEDY FAMILIES TO BE BROUGHT WITHIN THE NET,

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MR YEUNG ALSO ADDED THAT EVEN THE SCRAPING TOGETHER of the

EXERCISE WAS ALLOCATION MILLION IN LAST

RESOURCE YEAR'S

BUT IT WAS ACCOMPLISHED WITHOUT THE SACRIFICE OF OTHER ITEMS,

OF STRENGTH THE

PUBLIC BECAUSE THE

RECOGNISED GOVERNMENT PARENTAL SENTIMENT WHICH MANY MEMBERS HAD REFLECTED.

AS TO

OF

$11

NOT

DONE

AND

STRONG ASSERTION

OVERSEAS

PRACTICES

AND

THAT KINDERGARTEN RESEARCH SAID HE THE FACT DID NOT

SEVERAL MEMBERS'

AND THAT EDUCATION WAS ESSENTIAL MIGHT NOT BE RELEVANT TO HONG KONG'S CIRCUMSTANCES, MR YEUNG

THEIR ENTIRETY GIVEN COULD NOT ACCEPT THESE ARGUMENTS IN

70 NEARLY

PER CENT OF THE WORLD, THAT 141 NATIONS, OR SUBSIDISE EDUCATION UNTIL AT LEAST THE AGE OF SIX.

RESEARCH

NONETHELESS, THE DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION HAD STARTED TO

UPON THE DEVELOPMENT THE LONG-TERM EFFECTS OF PRE-PRIMARY EDUCATION OF CHILDREN IN HONG KONG, HE NOTED.

HE

VERY LIMITED AMOUNT MR YEUNG ASSURED MEMBERS THAT WITHIN THE OF NEW RESOURCES ALLOCATED FOR SERVICES WITHIN HIS PROGRAMME AREA, WOULD TRY NOT TO FORGET THE KINDERGARTENS AND KINDERGARTEN TEACHERS.

REVIEW BE CONDUCTED

LONGER NO

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AS TO SEVERAL MEMBERS' SUGGESTION THAT A

REQUIRED OR TO CONTRACT OR PHASE OUT SERVICES WHICH WERE WERE BEING DUPLICATED ELSEWHERE, MR YEUNG SAID THE REVIEW PROCESS HAD

TIME AS PART OF THE GOVERNMENT'S IN FACT, BEEN GOING ON FOR SOME RESPONSE TO LEANER TIMES AHEAD, AND IT WAS LED BY THE CHIEF SECRETARY

TO WHOM ALL BRANCH SECRETARIES AND THE FINANCIAL SECRETARY, REQUIRED TO MAKE PROPOSALS.

WERE

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