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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER ZU, 1993

* REDUCE

SIGNIFICANTLY OVERCROWDING

THROUGH

THE

COMPLETE

ELIMINATION OF CAMP BEDS AND THE PHASED DECANTATION OF 487 PATIENTS TO OTHER HOSPITALS; AND

* ORGANISE

SOCIAL CLUB.

WELFARE OR RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES BY

THE STAFF

MRS WONG ALSO NOTED THAT A TOTAL OF 13 MINOR PROJECTS WERE PROGRESS TO IMPROVE THE HOSPITAL ENVIRONMENT FOR PATIENTS AND STAFF.

IN

IN THE LONGER TERM, THE HOSPITAL WILL BE REDEVELOPED, AT A COST OF $500 MILLION, FOR COMPLETION BY 1997, SHE ADDED.

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MORE S6 STUDENTS IN PREVOCATIONAL SCHOOLS

A TOTAL OF 275 SECONDARY FIVE STUDENTS OF PREVOCATIONAL SCHOOLS CONTINUE THEIR STUDIES IN SECONDARY SIX IN THE SAME SCHOOLS IN 1993/94 COMPARED TO 263 IN 1992/93, THE ACTING SECRETARY FOR EDUCATION AND

MR MANPOWER,

W K LAM, TOLD THE LEGISLATIVE

TODAY COUNCIL (WEDNESDAY).

MR

IN A WRITTEN REPLY TO A QUESTION BY THE HON TIK CHI-YUEN, LAM SAID THESE FIGURES REPRESENTED 9.84 PER CENT AND 11.71 PER CENT OF THE RELEVANT ENROLMENT RESPECTIVELY.

HE ALSO TOLD MEMBERS THAT OF THE 570 SECONDARY SIX PLACES IN PREVOCATIONAL SCHOOLS IN 1993/94, 526 WERE ALLOCATED UNDER STAGES I TO IV OF THE

ACADEMIC ADMISSION PROCEDURE ON THE BASIS OF

SCHOOL SELECTION.

THE REMAINING 44 PLACES WERE ALLOCATED

STUDENTS UNDER STAGE V.

MERIT

AND

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IN 1992/93, ALL THE 420 AVAILABLE PLACES HAD BEEN ALLOCATED BEFORE THE CENTRAL ALLOCATION STAGE WAS ACTIVATED.

ON THE NUMBER OF SECONDARY SIX STUDENTS IN PREVOCATIONAL

THE SCHOOLS WHO DID NOT OBTAIN PASSES IN CHINESE OR ENGLISH IN

HONG KONG CERTIFICATE OF EDUCATION EXAMINATION (HKCEE), MR LAM SAID IN 1993/94, 85 (16%) DID NOT OBTAIN A PASS IN CHINESE LANGUAGE, (17.1%) DID NOT OBTAIN A PASS IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND 22 (4.1%) NOT OBTAIN PASSES IN BOTH CHINESE LANGUAGE AND ENGLISH LANGUAGE.

CORRESPONDING THE

(15.7%) AND 12 (2.9%).

FIGURES FOR 1992/93 WERE 51

91

DID

(12.3%),

65

THERE WERE ALSO 24 (5.8%) SECONDARY SIX STUDENTS WHO LEFT SCHOOL IN 1992/93 BECAUSE THEY DID NOT OBTAIN A PASS IN EITHER CHINESE

OR LANGUAGE

ENGLISH LANGUAGE OR BOTH AFTER RESITTING THE НКСЕЕ IN

1993.

THE NUMBER OF STUDENTS TO RESIT THE 1994 HKCEE IS NOT

YET

AVAILABLE.

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