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of teacher training and the greater range of opportunities for extended education, with the resulting increase in the numbers of well-educated young people, should have beneficial effects on education as a whole. Yet no statement of policy should seck to impose a fixed pattern on future development. Education policy must be subject to a continuous process of review and be receptive to new ideas. The Government has therefore agreed, in

response to a suggestion from the Board of Education, to initiate an overall review of the education system. This review will be

conducted by a mixed group of local residents and overseas experts. Its main aim will be to consider the inter-relationship

of each part of the education service and the effectiveness of

its contribution.

1.6 The Green Paper1 published in November 1977 put forward

proposals on the development programme for education beyond the basic nine-year course, in the period up to 1986. The discussions which ensued? were extensive and thorough:-

senior officers from the Education Department participated in a series of meetings arranged by the Home Affairs Department with community leaders to explain the proposals;

a summary leaflet in Chinese was distributed through public

libraries, city district offices etc.;

educational bodies and the public at large were invited to

comment on the proposals in the Green Paper; their comments

and views expressed in articles in the press were considered

and discussed within the Government;

the Secretary for Social Services held discussions on the

Green Paper with representatives of the main tertiary institutions;

a team from the Home Affairs Department and the University

of Hong Kong supervised a survey of the opinions of

teachers /

'Senior secondary and tertiary education: a development

programme for Hong Kong over the next decade

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