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sixth-form course (5+1 years) to ensure that Middle school pupils

who chose to do so could enter employment after five years of

secondary education, in line with their counterparts in Anglo-Chinese

schools. With the introduction of nine years' universal, free and

compulsory basic education the major parts of the two systems became

further fused in 1978 when, irrespective of category, the first five

years were divided into the present three-year junior secondary

(Form/Middle I III) and two-year senior secondary (Form/Middle

IV

V) courses; these, however, are followed by sixth-form courses

of two years' duration in Anglo-Chinese schools but of only one year's

duration in Chinese Middle schools. This difference at the points of

access to tertiary education, together with the existence of two local

universities with different basic course structures, has led to

considerable complications in the provision and development of sixth-

form education, as explained in appendix C.

2.12

Access from school to the technical institutes (q.v.) is

available at the craft level for Form III leavers and at the lower

technician level for Form V leavers; entry to the Hong Kong Polytechnic

(q.v.) is available at both lower and higher technician levels for

Form V leavers, though a large number of entrants in practice hold

Advanced level qualifications.

2.13

Access from school to the colleges of education

and to the two assisted approved post secondary colleges (APSC) (q.v.)

is available at two levels - post-Form V and, for those with specified

The third APSC, Advanced level qualifications, post-Form Upper VI.

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Shue Yan College, has normally drawn its entrants from Chinese Middle

VI leavers.