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officials to do so too.

Education

15. There are excellent proposals in being for the extension

of post primary education including pre-vocational training,

and I do not think that any further examination of the problem

is needed. The requirement is rather to ensure that the

plans are adopted and implemented, and that the Education

Department, including its Director and his Deputies, are

equal to the task. I expect to find a need to give them a

greater sense of status in the government machine, greater

professional freedom from Secretariat control and perhaps

an injection of new blood from outside.

Technical Education

I

16. Here again excellent plans have been drawn up and the

need is now to see how quickly they can be implemented.

think it should be possible to arrange that technical

education at both polytechnic and institute level can be

pressed on or expanded respectively in advance of the extensive

building programme that is planned. I have had much advice

on this subject from TETOC and from the Heads of technical

colleges both here and in the Far East.

Housing

17.

The problem here is that the requirement is so vast

that a high degree of selectivity is inevitable.

It cannot

all be done at once. But I shall want to be satisfied that

programmes are introduced which will do much more than

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