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Paper last year and provoked lively debate both

inside and outside this Council. Your Government

will shortly publish revised plans as a White Paper.

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As well as providing for a great expansion of

places, the White Paper will reflect the importance

the Government attaches to improving the quality of

secondary education. The most important step envisaged

will be a phazed scheme to raise "per caput" schools

to fully-aided status so as to ensure proper facilities

and more uniform standards in all schools in the public

sector.

87 Quality will also be improved by broadening

the curriculum to give more weight to practical and

technical subjects, by improving, and where applicable,

lengthening, teacher training programmes, and by

strengthening schools support services.

8 In tertiary and higher education we propose

that the Polytechnic should raise the level of some

of its work, and that, in compensation, more ordinary

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