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Chapter 7

Control of the Primary School System

7.1

The Green Paper considered the pressures imposed on young

children by the intense competition to enter popular primary schools and

the effect this had on education at the kindergarten level. It proposed

the introduction of a system of centralised allocation of Primary 1 places

on a district basis and set out one method by which this could be achieved.

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7.2

While a number of suggestions were made for modifying the

tentative system proposed, the concept of some system of controlling entry

to Primary 1 was supported by the majority of those responding to the

Green Paper. The Government has, therefore, decided to implement a system

of control along the lines described in the following paragraphs.

major change from the method set out in the Green Paper is to give more

discretion to schools while at the same time completely eliminating tests

The new system is still primarily district-based, each

and examinations.

The

district containing approximately half the number of primary schools that are

contained in each of the Secondary School Places Allocation nets used in

the annual Secondary School Places Allocation exercise. The new system

will be introduced in 1983 and reviewed at regular intervals.

7.3

Instead of the division into discretionary places and allocated

places suggested in the Green Paper, there will be three types of places:

unrestricted discretionary places

(a)

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up to

35% of the places in Primary 1 in each

school may be of this category;

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