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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1991

ON

PROFESSION HAD AN TEACHERS,

TEACHING MR CHAN SAID THE

THROUGH ABSOLUTELY PIVOTAL ROLE TO PLAY IN BRINGING ABOUT AND SEEING THE QUALITATIVE IMPROVEMENTS.

WE MUST "IF OUR TEACHERS ARE TO BE EQUIPPED FOR THIS ROLE,

TEACHER EDUCATION, PROVIDE THEM WITH THE RIGHT MIX OF PRE-SERVICE INDUCTION SUPPORT AND IN-SERVICE TRAINING.

ALL

"THE EDUCATION COMMISSION IS NOW TAKING A FUNDAMENTAL LOOK

TRAINING AND PREPARATION,

PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS OF TEACHER

AT

DEVELOPMENT.

"OBVIOUSLY

I

CANNOT

ANTICIPATE

THE

COMMISSION'S

THE

THAT RECOMMENDATIONS. BUT I CAN SAY THAT GOOD PROGRESS IS BEING MADE,

THE PAST, COMMISSION HAS LISTENED TO MANY VIEWS AND THAT, AS IN

ON THE COMMISSION'S THERE WILL BE WIDESPREAD PUBLIC CONSULTATION REPORT WHEN IT IS COMPLETED, HE SAID.

-

AND

"WHERE A BREATHTAKING EXPANSION TURNING TO TERTIARY EDUCATION

SEVERAL PROGRAMME

TRAIN" - MR CHAN SAID

MEMBERS HAD DRAWN IS IN ATTENTION TO THE NEED FOR THE EXPANSION TO BE CLOSELY MONITORED CAREFULLY MANAGED, AND FOR MAINTAINING THE BALANCE OF DEVELOPMENT DIFFERENT LEVELS OF THE EDUCATION SYSTEM.

HE

AT

EXPANSION

THE EXTENT,

TERTIARY TO A LARGE SAID THAT PROGRAMME WAS A NATURAL CONSEQUENCE OF THE EXPANSION IN SCHOOL

THE MANPOWER OVER THE PAST 20 YEARS. AT THE SAME TIME, CLEARLY SHOWED THE NEED FOR A GREATLY INCREASED OUTPUT OF GRADUATES BY 1996 AND BEYOND, IF WE WERE TO ENJOY SUSTAINED GROWTH.

PLACES

FORECAST UNIVERSITY ECONOMIC

TERTIARY EXPANSION TARGETS HAD BEEN WORKED OUT WITH THE ADVICE OF THE UNIVERSITY AND POLYTECHNICS GRANTS COMMITTEE, CLOSE CONSULTATION WITH THE TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS.

EXPERT AND IN

FOR EXAMPLE, THE

REPRESENTS

"WE BELIEVE THEY ARE ENTIRELY REALISTIC. TARGET OF 15,000 FIRST-YEAR FIRST-DEGREE PLACES BY 1994-95 JUST 84% OF THE PROJECTED NUMBER OF MATRICULANTS IN THAT YEAR.

QUALIFYING THROUGH **THE

FACT THAT THE NUMBER OF MATRICULANTS THIS YEAR'S A-LEVEL EXAMINATION WAS WITHIN 2% OF THE FORECAST WE MADE A SOUND STATISTICAL TWO YEARS AGO SUGGESTS THAT OUR PLANNING HAS BASIS." HE SAID.

THAT

MR CHAN SAID HE ACCEPTED THAT CIRCUMSTANCES MIGHT CHANGE.

EYE ON ALL WAS WHY HIS BRANCH AND THE UPGC WERE KEEPING A CLOSE

BASED ON RELEVANT FACTORS, INCLUDING REVISED POPULATION PROJECTIONS

SO THE LATEST CENSUS AND THE PLANNED EXPANSION OF SIXTH FORM PLACES,

IN 1993-94 THE UPGC THAT THEY COULD STEER THE EXPANSION SENSIBLY. WOULD CONDUCT A MAJOR REVIEW OF PROGRESS AND ADVISE ON THE NEXT STEPS.

MR CHAN SAID THAT THIS YEAR THE SEVEN UPGC-FUNDED FILLED ABOUT 10,500 FIRST-YEAR FIRST-DEGREE

INSTITUTIONS

PLACES, COMPARED WITH

8,500

SHOWED

PLACES LAST YEAR. PRELIMINARY REPORTS FROM

BEEN FILLED THESE ALL THAT

PLACES

HAD

APPLICANTS.

THE INSTITUTIONS WITH QUALIFIED

/HE SAID