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places and will involve the provision of 49,500 new places each year.
The fees charged at Government and subsidised primary schools will not
exceed SHK. 30 per annum or 37/6 (SHK. 10 per annum for rural schools).
In addition, Headmasters have authority to remit the fees of pupils in
cases of hardship, up to a maximum of 20% of the maximum theoretical fee
income of his school.
Secondary and Technical Education
20. Nearly 75% of Secondary (Grammar) pupils are educated at private
Chinese and Anglo-Chinese schools. Free Secondary education is not
considered possible at the present time or in the near future. The present
aims are to increase the number of pupils admitted to Government or
Government aided Grammar or Secondary Technical Schools and to subsidised
places in selected private schools to between 15% and 20% of the total
number of pupils completing a primary course.
21.
The school fees in Government and aided urban Grammar Schools
will be from HK. 320 to HK. 400 per annum (£20 to £25) with corresponding
At the same
time increased provision has been made for fee remission; the new maximum
rates being 50% of nominal fee income for matriculation classes,
lesser amounts in the case of rural and technical schools.
45% for other Grammer school classes and 35% for Secondary technical
schools.
22. The overall facilities for secondary and technical education are
still inadequate but are being expanded rapidly. The enrolment figures
in Secondary schools of all kinds have increased from 131,662 in 1962 to
the present figure of nearly 200,000. 9 Secondary technical schools
give a 5 year course in English; the total enrolment is over 6000.
University Education
23. The University of Hong Kong was established in 1911 with endowments,
which have been added to since, and a grant of land from the
Hong Kong Government which also makes substantial recurrent and
non-recurrent grants. In 1965/66 government made recurrent grants of
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