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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1992

10

STANDARDS

IN

SETTING

TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF INDIVIDUAL LEARNING

CHINESE, ENGLISH AND MATHEMATICS TARGETS AND TARGET-RELATED ASSESSMENT.

UNDER THE

WHICH HAS

"THESE INITIATIVES FORM PART OF A CONCERTED GOVERNMENT EFFORT FURTHER IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF EDUCATION IN HONG KONG,

MR WONG SAID. BEEN OUR CONTINUOUS TASK FOR MANY YEARS,

ΤΟ

"

HE

ADDED

DEVELOPMENT THAT A MATURE STAGE OF EDUCATIONAL BEEN REACHED

THERE WERE ENOUGH SCHOOL PLACES FOR NINE COMPULSORY EDUCATION FOR ALL, AND FOR 11 YEARS OF SCHOOL EDUCATION FOR NEARLY EVERYONE.

HAD

YEARS

OF

MR

REACHED,

WONG SAID THE TARGET OF SIXTH FORM PLACES HAD ALMOST BEEN AND TERTIARY EDUCATION OPPORTUNITIES HAD INCREASED

SUBSTANTIALLY.

"BY 1994, AT

AGE

LEAST 18 PER CENT OF OUR YOUNG PEOPLE CAN ENTER TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS FOR FIRST WITH ANOTHER SIX PER CENT STUDYING FOR NON-DEGREE COURSES,"

OF

DEGREE

APPROPRIATE STUDIES,

HE SAID.

OF.

HONG KONG, MR WONG ADDED, HAD MOVED AWAY FROM THE OLD EDUCATION

DESIGNED ΤΟ PRODUCE SYSTEM

A SMALL ELITE TO FILL POSITIONS TOWARDS LEADERSHIP,

A SYSTEM DESIGNED ΤΟ

AND SUPPORT

THE REACH ΤΟ EVERYONE

WORK TOWARDS QUALITY TARGETS AND TO LEVELS OF ONE OWN CAPABILITY.

ENCOURAGE HIGHEST

RESULT OF "THE WORLD TODAY SEEMS TO HAVE SHRUNK IN SIZE AS A TECHNOLOGICAL

AND ADVANCEMENTS. GLOBALISATION OF INFORMATION, TRADE HUMAN CONTACTS HAS BROUGHT PEOPLE CLOSER TODAY.

"IT

ΤΟ

CROSS

OF

ABLE NOW NECESSARY FOR AS MANY OF US TO BE 15 LOCAL, NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL BOUNDARIES IN ORDER TO REAP MOST THESE BENEFITS," HE SAID.

IN

LANGUAGE PLAYED A

EDUCATORS,

EACH OF THESE AREAS, MR WONG CONTINUED, MAJOR ROLE AND THOSE ATTENDING THE CONFERENCE, AS LANGUAGE HAD AN IMPORTANT RESPONSIBILITY TO DISCHARGE.

WORLD

AROUND THE HE SAID HE COULD UNDERSTAND WHY EDUCATION SYSTEMS WERE ALL TRYING AT THIS TIME TO COME TO TERMS

THE WITH

KNOWLEDGE,

OF OF THE ECONOMY, ANTI GLOBALISATION OF

HUMAN CONTACT ACROSS CULTURES AND VALUE SYSTEMS.

IN

IT WAS NOT SURPRISING TO FIND THAT THE SOLUTIONS BRING PROPOSED

MANY UNITED THE

STATES, CANADA, EUROPE AND IN INCLUDING HONG KONG, WERE SIMILAR.

PARTS OF

THEY INVOLVED DEVISING WAYS OF ENABLING STUDENTS TO:

LEARN HOW TO LEARN;

TO SEARCH OUT AND CONSTRUCT KNOWLEDGE;

TO THINK LOGICALLY;

ASIA,

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