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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1990

PLANNED INCREASE IN F.6 PLACES WILL MEET REQUIREMENTS

*

常

SIXTH

THE GOVERNMENT IS CONFIDENT THAT THE PLANNED INCREASE IN

THESE INTO

PLACES WILL MEET THE FORM PLACES AND THE PULL-THROUGH REQUIREMENTS OF THE TERTIARY EDUCATION EXPANSION PROGRAMME IN TERMS OF AND MANPOWER, THE HON STUDENT NUMBERS, THE SECRETARY FOR EDUCATION K.Y. YEUNG, INFORMED THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

DAVID CHEUNG, MR IN A WRITTEN REPLY TO A QUESTION BY THE HON

OF YEUNG STATED THAT THE GOVERNMENT PLANNED TO INCREASE THE PROVISION

PRESENT TIME SUBSIDISED SECONDARY 6 PLACES FROM 18,270 PLACES AT THE TO 22,240 PLACES IN SEPTEMBER 1992 AND TO 23,000 IN SEPTEMBER 1994.

BE

SOUGHT

THE

IN "FUNDS WILL EXPENDITURE TO START CONVERSION WORKS MEET THIS TARGET," HE SAID.

1991-92

DRAFT

ESTIMATES FOR ADDITIONAL CLASSROOMS

OF

ΤΟ

LINE WITH THE PAPER ON WHITE 1978

THE

ΤΟ EDUCATION, TERTIARY

PROVIDE OF THE STUDENTS UP TO ONE-THIRD

MR YEUNG SAID THE INCREASE IN PROVISION WAS IN

THE STATED IN GOVERNMENT'S POLICY, DEVELOPMENT OF SENIOR SECONDARY AND SUBSIDISED SIXTH FORM PLACES FOR ENTERING SUBSIDISED SECONDARY 4 PLACES TWO YEARS PREVIOUSLY.

PLACES,

THE INCREASE IN THE

"TOGETHER WITH NON-SUBSIDISED PUBLIC SECTOR WILL PRODUCE SOME 26,000 SIXTH FORM PLACES IN 1994.

"SET AGAINST THE TARGET OF

FIRST

PLACES IN THE SAME YEAR, THIS PROVISION OF SIXTH

FIRST DEGREE FORM PLACES WOULD

15,000

YEAR,

ENABLE OPPORTUNITY

SIX

10 OUT OF ΤΟ

FOR STUDY

STUDENTS

LEAVING

SIXTH

ΤΟ FORM

A DEGREE

COURSE

AT

THE

INSTITUTIONS," HE SAID.

HAVE AN TERTIARY

WITH

AND

THE

ALL SIXTH FORM PLACES AS TO MR CHEUNG'S QUESTION ON WHETHER FOR THE CURRENT SCHOOL YEAR HAD BEEN OCCUPIED AND THE COMPARISON

ALL GOVERNMENT THAT OF LAST YEAR, MR YEUNG SAID A HEAD-COUNT IN

IN AIDED SECONDARY SCHOOLS CONDUCTED BY THE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT

PER 87

CENT OF THE 1990

THAT INDICATED FIRST WEEK OF SEPTEMBER

79 PER CENT LAST SECONDARY 6 PLACES HAD BEEN FILLED, COMPARED WITH YEAR.

EARLY OCTOBER WHEN TECHNICAL

INSTITUTES

"THE PERCENTAGE DROPPED TO 81 PER CENT IN

OF EDUCATION AND THE POLYTECHNICS, COLLEGES ANNOUNCED THEIR STUDENT INTAKE.

IS

CAUSED BY

SECONDARY

6

WHEN

THEY

AT OTHER INSTITUTIONS, RECEIVE

NOTIFICATION

OF

"THIS WASTAGE OCCURS ANNUALLY AND ENTRANTS SIMULTANEOUSLY APPLYING FOR COURSES AND THEN DROPPING OUT OF SCHOOL ACCEPTANCE, MR YEUNG EXPLAINED.

"

MR YEUNG SAID

GOVERNMENT'S

NEXT

GIVEN

TASK WAS

THE

то

TREND ACHIEVE

OF

UNDER-ENROLMENT,

THE

THE FULLEST

POSSIBLE

UTILISATION OF SECONDARY 6 PLACES

IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR.

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