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5 November 1974
Mr James Sillars (South Ayrshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when free primary education was
introduced in Hong Kong; and what plans the Hong Kong Government have to introduce compulsory secondary education for children between the age of 12 and 15 years
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MR DAVID ENNALS
Free primary education was introduced in all Government and aided Chinese and Anglo-Chinese language primary schools in 1971. In a White Paper, on secondary education in Hong Kong over the next decade, tabled in the Legislative Council on the 16th of October, firm plans have been proposed for the expansion of junior secondary forms 1 to 3 to provide places for one hundred per cent of children in the age group 12 to 14. and for forty per cent of the age group 15 to 16 in forms 4 and 5 by September 1979. The Director of Education has statutory powers to order attendance at a primary school, but it is not proposed to make secondary education compulsory at this stage. Although secondary level education is not free, it is heavily subsidised and fee remission arrangements are in force which are designed to ensure that no child is denied secondary education on financial grounds.
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