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ANNEX A to BRIEF No 15

PRIMARY EDUCATION

1. Free primary education in Government and Government-aided

schools (except English language schools) was introduced on

1 September 1971. A compulsory school attendance scheme has

also been introduced. Under this the Director of Education

is empowered to send a child to a primary school if there are

reasons to believe that the parents have unnecessarily withheld

his attendance.

Hong Kong Department

31 January 1972

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