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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1990

EDUCATION QUESTIONS MUST BE ADDRESSED WITH ENTHUSIASM, IMAGINATION

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PROVIDING NOW THAT HONG KONG HAS ALMOST REACHED ITS TARGETS IN SCHOOL PLACES, THE TERITORY MUST ADDRESS WITH RENEWED ENTHUSIASM AND OF QUALITY IN ITS EDUCATION IMAGINATION THE FUNDAMENTAL QUESTIONS SYSTEM, THE GOVERNOR, SIR DAVID WILSON, SAID TODAY (MONDAY).

"ONLY IN THIS WAY CAN WE MAKE THE LEARNING PROCESS AS FRUITFUL, REWARDING AND EFFICIENT AS POSSIBLE," HE SAID.

CEREMONY NEXT DECADE

SPEAKING AT THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY AND NINTH GRADUATION

THE OF THE HANG SENG SCHOOL OF COMMERCE, SIR DAVID SAID WOULD SEE FAR-REACHING CHANGES.

"ONE OF THE PRINCIPAL AREAS WHERE WE HOPE TO MAKE IS IN THE SCHOOLS CURRICULUM," HE SAID.

IMPROVEMENTS

COMMISSION

HAD BREN IT WOULD SOON PUBLISH

SIR DAVID POINTED OUT THAT THE EDUCATION STUDYING THIS QUESTION FOR THE PAST YEAR AND ITS RECOMMENDATIONS IN ITS FOURTH REPORT,

THAT WE TAKE THE DETERMINING

"I WOULD URGE YOU ALL TO READ IT. THE DECISIONS

WILL BE

IN CRUCIAL AFTER THE CONSULTATION PERIOD QUALITY OF EDUCATION IN OUR SCHOOLS IN THE 1990'S," SIR DAVID SAID.

THAT PRIVATE SECONDARY ON PRIVATE SCHOOLS, THE GOVERNOR SAID

RESOURCES TO COMPETE SCHOOLS IN HONG KONG HAD GENERALLY NOT HAD THE WITH THE PUBLIC SECTOR AND THAT THIS HAD BEEN A DRAWBACK.

"GOOD PRIVATE SCHOOLS, LIKE THE HANG SENG SCHOOL CAN CONCENTRATE ON SPECIALIST AREAS.

OF COMMERCE,

INCREASE

"THEY CAN PROVIDE GREATER CHOICE WITHIN OUR EDUCATION SYSTEM.

IT AS IMPORTANT TO

PARENTAL "THE GOVERNMENT SEES

A HEALTHLY PRIVATE SCHOOL CHOICE BY ENCOURAGING THE DEVELOPMENT OF SECTOR," HE SAID.

THIS, ACHIEVE TO HELP

SIR

DAVID

SAID

THE GOVERNMENT

HAD

SCHEME WHERE, FOR THE FIRST TIME, INTRODUCED THE DIRECT SUBSIDY PRIVATE SECONDARY SCHOOLS COULD RECEIVE A GOVERNMENT SUBSIDY BASED THE NUMBER OF PUPILS ENROLLED AND THE FEES CHARGED.

ON

HE SAID BY SUCH MEASURES

PRIVATE SCHOOLS.

THE

GOVERNMENT

HOPED

ΤΟ

ENCOURAGE

MUST

COME

FROM THEIR FOUNDERS; "BUT THE REAL EFFORT ADMINISTRATORS; THEIR TEACHERS; AND THEIR PUPILS.

"IT IS TO THEM THAT WE MUST LOOK FOR PROGRESS. SUCCEED, IT IS THEY WHO DESERVE THE PRAISE," HE SAID.

THEIR

AND WHEN THEY

/SIR DAVID