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* To provide 300 additional primary graduate teacher posts in 1996-97 as part

of the on-going efforts to upgrade the quality of primary education.

* To plan additional provisions for five international schools in the next five years to meet the anticipated demands and provide continued support to non-profit making international schools by introducing an improved package of assistance towards building such schools.

* The University Grants Committee to introduce next year the Teaching and Learning Quality Process Review to examine the effectiveness of the various systems used to maintain and improve the quality of learning and teaching in its tertiary institutions.

* To start the construction of a new campus in Tai Po for the Hong Kong Institute of Education, due to open in September 1997, at a capital cost of $2.1 billion.

* To introduce legislation next month to regulate the marketing of overseas courses of higher learning in Hong Kong to protect students against false or misleading claims.

* To introduce an Extended Loan Scheme this month to an estimated 6,000 students who previously would have received little or no financial assistance under the Local Student Finance Scheme.

To grant $50 million to the Open Learning Institute to offer loans to the needy students as from this October.

* To complete a comprehensive review on the Local Student Finance Scheme

by early next year.

End/Thursday, October 12, 1995