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Subject
Purpose
3. Review of Primary. To make recommendations
Education and Pre-for improving the primary Services
4. Compulsory
Education
effectiveness of primary education and for promoting the development of services for the care and education of children below primary school age.
To extend the Director.
of Education's powers to enforce school attendance to cover children in junior secondary forms.
Progress made and present position
Next quarter targets
The working parties have held further meetings to To give further -
consider key issues and are making satisfactory progress. The subjects which have been" considered by the working parties include qualifications for kindergarten teachers and resources required for training, minimum standards to improve the quality of kindergarten education, implications of reducing the age of entry into "primary school, a system of controlled entry in primary schools and reduction of primary school class size.
consideration to the main issues.
The Education and Labour Departments are jointly To give further preparing drafting instructions for the necessary legislation.
The schools councils are being consulted on the proposal that Government should meet the cost of 'tong fai". A draft Finance Committee agenda item has been prepared and was discussed at a meeting with the Finance Branch and Education Department on 20th April 1978.
consideration to the drafting instructions with a view to having a Bill ready for consideration by the Executive Council by the end of 1978.
To put forward agenda item on "tong fai" to the Finance Committee in May.
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