3. Free Further and Higher Education?
There is a partial fees remission scheme for full-time
students attending technical institutes, and schemes for grants and loans for students taking full-time courses at colleges of education, the Hong Kong Polytechnic and the two universities. In 1976-77 27% of students at technical institutes received some degree of fees remission and 60%-70% at colleges of education, 47% at the Hong Kong Polytechnic and over 60% at the universities received grants and/or loans.
4.
Children out of School
I would refer to the reply that my hon. Friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs gave to my hon. Friend, the member for Liverpool, Scotland Exchange Division (Mr Parry) on 8 December that, at September 1975, the latest date for which a figure is available, 25,100 children aged between 10 and 14 years in Hong Kong were not enrolled in any school.7
5.
School Drop-outs
I would refer to the reply that my hou. Friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs gave to my hon. Friend the member for Liverpool, Scotland Exchange Division (Mr Parry) on 8 December last that
information on the number of children aged 10-14 years in Hong Kong who did not complete three years of secondary schooling in each year since 1973 will not be available until the results of the 1976 bi-census are known later this year.7
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