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to report shortly, and the resulting proposals will

be published in a Green Paper.

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Plans are thus well under way to prepare development

programmes for all stages of education from kindergartens

to the tertiary level. While these programmes will lay

down the main lines of advance, there should be scope for

re-examination in a wider context. Accordingly, on the

advice of the Board of Education, I propose to initiate

a wide-ranging review that would cover the whole of the

education system, its methods and its objectives. It is

proposed that this should be conducted primarily by

persons from abroad with great expertise in education,

though certainly with local participation.

review as a longer term development to check the plans

we have already made before they become too deeply

entrenched.

I see this