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of fee remission will continue.

3.15

The 1965 White Paper recommended that there should

be no wide variation in the level of fees charged, and this

general principle is still endorsed. However, the Board of

Education will be asked to conduct a thorough review of the

present fee structure bearing in mind particularly the need

to maintain revenue from fees at a proper level and the

desirability of rationalizing the present system. It would

be premature to propose any changes in the present fee

system until such a review has taken place.

3.16

Costs

In considering the cost of the new policy now outlined,

it is necessary to assess capital and recurrent expenditure

separately, and to differentiate between the various types

of education to be provided. Whatever cost projections are

used, many uncertain factors may affect them. For example,

general rises in costs of building and of teachers salaries

and variations in fees and fee remissions, will have an

important influence on net costs. It should be stressed that

the estimates in Tables II and III are based on mid-1974 prices.

3.17

Capital costs

The estimated capital costs of the secondary schools

which are estimated to be required to meet the new targets,

as detailed in para. 3.12 and 3.13, are given below in

Table II.

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