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Apart from the vacant flat refurbishment programme, about $3.7 billion will be used to fund other programmes, such as major structural repairs, fire services installations, lift modernisation, and other improvement works relating to security installations, plumbing, water supply, electrical rewiring and lighting.

End/Wednesday, October 25, 1995

Unit cost of school places

The following is a question by the Hon Cheung Bing- leung and a written reply by the Secretary for Education and Manpower, Mr Joseph Wong, in the Legislative Council today (Wednesday):

Question:

Will the Government inform this Council of the unit cost of school places in each of the following categories of educational institutions for the current year:

Reply:

(a) primary schools;

(b) secondary schools;

(c) institute of education; and

(d) universities?

Mr President,

The following average costs of places takes no account of the different costs for different subjects, the different levels of study or the range of costs in the same subjects at different institutions: