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UNIFICATION A LONGER-TERM QUESTION

WORKING PARTY ON

EDUCATION

WILL

ADDRESS

THE

OF STAFFING STANDARDS, IN SUBSEQUENT MEETINGS,

K.Y. YEUNG, TOLD THE

KINDERGARTEN THE ISSUES OF WHOLE-DAY NURSERY CLASSES, CONTROL TEACHER: PUPIL RATIOS AND SPACE RATIOS SECRETARY FOR EDUCATION AND MANPOWER, THE HON LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

SAID

REGARDING QUESTION

REPLYING TO A QUESTION FROM THE HON HUI YIN-FAT, MR YEUNG

FINALISED ITS RECOMMENDATIONS ONCE THE WORKING PARTY HAD THESE ISSUES, IT WOULD TURN ITS ATTENTION TO THE LONGER-TERM OF UNIFICATION OF CHILD CARE CENTRES AND KINDERGARTEN EDUCATION.

ΤΟ CONSIDER

"IT IS NOT POSSIBLE FIRST SORTED OUT THE FOREGOING ISSUES,

UNIFICATION WITHOUT HAYING HE SAID IN HIS WRITTEN REPLY.

TIMES SINCE DECEMBER

HE SAID THE WORKING PARTY HAD MET THREE 1989 AND HAD EXAMINED ASPECTS OF TEACHER TRAINING AND OVER-ENROLMENT.

PRE-PRIMARY

MR YEUNG SAID THE WORKING GROUP ON UP IN OCTOBER 1986, COMPLETED ITS TASK LAST SEPTEMBER.

THAT

PARTLY

SERVICES, SET

ITS ADVICE

PROPOSALS

AND TO

ON

STRENGTH THE

OF HE SAID RECOMMENDATIONS, THE GOVERNMENT PUT FORWARD A NUMBER OF THE FXECUTIVE COUNCIL LAST OCTOBER.

OF

"THE PROPOSALS FOR IMPROVING OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE TRAINING

A NEW FEE REMISSION SCHEME KINDERGARTEN TEACHERS, FOR INTRODUCING

DEPARTMENT AND FOR THE ADOPTION OF ADMINISTERED BY THE EDUCATION

HONOURABLE MEMBERS," RECOMMENDED SALARY SCALES ARE NOW WELL KNOWN TO MR YEUNG SAID.

THE PROPOSALS WERE DEBATED AT SOME LENGTH IN RECENT WEEKS.

COUNCIL

ENDORSED ALSO HAS THE LONG TERM, THE

THAT,

THE VIEW

UNIFICATION

"BUT EXECUTIVE HOWEVER DESIRABLE IT MAY BE IN CHILD CARE SERVICES WITH KINDERGARTEN EDUCATION WOULD BE DIFFICULT ACHIEVE IN THE SHORT TERM.

OF

TO

+

IT

WAS

KINDERGARTENS CENTRES AND STANDARDS OF THE TWO TYPES OF INSTITUTIONS THEIR RESPECTIVE MODUS OPERANDI ARE DIFFERENT,

RECOGNITION MR YEUNG SAID THAT DIFFERENCES THAT A CONSCIOUS DECISION WAS TAKEN TO INTRODUCE A OF FEE REMISSION TO HELP NEEDY FAMILIES WITH CHILDREN IN KINDERGARTEN.

COUNCIL AND THE IN ARRIVING AT THE DECISION, BOTH EXECUTIVE

INTO ACCOUNT THE FACT THAT

CARE CHILD ADMINISTRATION HAVE TAKEN

THAT DIFFERENT PURPOSES, SERVE

THE DIFFER WIDELY, AND THAT

++ HE SAID.

PARTLY IN

OF

THESE SYSTEM

DOES NOT RULE "THE ADMINISTRATION, POSSIBILITY OF UNIFICATION BETWEEN THE TWO TYPES OF LONG TERM," HE SAID.

HOWEVER,

OUT THE SERVICES IN THE

WITH

ACCORDINGLY, THE WORKING PARTY ON KINDERGARTEN EDUCATION,

HAD BEEN SET UP ΤΟ BOTH OFFICIAL AND NON-OFFICIAL REPRESENTATION, STUDY, INTER ALIA, THE FEASIBILITY OF ULTIMATE UNIFICATION.

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