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7.

Extract from Governor's Speel in Legislative Council on 26-2-69.

RECEIVED IN ARCHIVES Ne 31

24 MAR 1969

HKK 9/3

One of our most pressing needs is to iatrosuce

sone kind of post-primary education for those children who

for one reason or another do not enter the secondary schools

with courses leading to School Certificates.

These are

the children, morcover, who are most likely to need

practical skills when they grow up. To meet the dual

need, we now have proposals for a new type of post-primary

school which will offer a three year pre-vocational course

It is intended that

half

for chilerea in the 11-15 age group.

should

half

the curriculua wady be bacademic and practical, and

that children wishing to cater these schools would not

have to sit the Gogoadary Bhool Entrance Examination.

I expoet.

10 proposals will come before Ioa. hembers shortly.