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The Working Group which is chaired by the Secretary for Financial Services, Mr Rafael Hui, comprises experienced and well-respected practitioners in the insurance industry. They are Mr Kenneth Kwok Tsun Wa, Mr Kenneth Ng Yu Lam, Mr Rudolf Oschwald, Mr Shiu Wai Kwok, Mr Ulrich Trumpp, Mr Edmund Tse, Mr Wang Xian Zhang and Mr Alex P H Wong.

The Deputy Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, Mr Andrew Sheng who has previous experience in studying the promotion of reinsurance business is also a member of the Working Group.

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Parents to receive school choice information

Parents of Primary 6 pupils participating in the Secondary School Places Allocation exercise 1996 will receive information on the choice of secondary schools and the results of Medium of Instruction Grouping Assessment of their children through the schools tomorrow (Tuesday).

Announcing this, a Senior Education Officer, Mrs Lily Lai, said that this year a total of 79,000 pupils are participating in the allocation exercise.

"The Secondary One Choice of Schools Form is for parents to indicate their choices of secondary schools, based on the particulars in the Secondary School List of their respective school net," Mrs Lai said.

"Normally parents can make a maximum of 30 school choices provided that the number of schools in their school net reach this number."

In any case, Mrs Lai emphasised that parents should include as many school choices as possible since this will increase the chances of their children being allocated to a school of their choice.

The information on Medium of Instruction Grouping will enable parents to choose a secondary school which offers a suitable language of instruction for their children.

Grouping is based on the schools' internal assessments on pupils at the end of Primary 5 and during the mid-year of Primary 6, both of which are scaled by the Academic Aptitude Test.