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The announcement of the closure led to further demonstrations, including a public meeting on 28 May attended by a crowd variously estimated at between 4,000 and 10,000 people. On 16 May the closure was endorsed by the Executive Council who decided that a Committee of Inquiry should be set up with the following terms of reference:
"Having regard to the closure of the Precious Blood
Golden Jubilee Secondary School, to make recommendations to the Governor on what measures should be taken to avoid a recurrence of a similar state of affairs in secondary schools in the public sector".
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The Governor has appointed Dr Rayson Huang, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hong Kong, to be Chairman of the Committee. the Governor's request Dr Huang has made it clear publicly that he interprets his terms of reference as requiring him to conduct a thorough examination of past events at the school. The Committee has already started work and is intending to submit its report by the beginning of August.
8. In the meantime, it has been announced that a new school, to be known as St Theresa's Secondary School, will open in the same premises at the beginning of the next school year, with Miss Kwan as Principal. New contracts will not be offered to the 16 radical teachers. Until the new school opens, places have been offered to the pupils of the former school in other schools under Government auspices, though a number of the pupils have not taken up this offer.
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