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Education Ordinance on the grounds that they provide education
consisting only of a series of lectures or a course of instruction
in a particular subject or topic; however, there are some private
schools registered under the Education Ordinance which offer post-
secondary courses of general education, though their numbers have
declined in recent years. These courses are variable in quality
and student attendance tends to be erratic. The post-secondary
qualifications awarded by such schools have very limited currency
both locally and overseas.
2.69 Some organisations operating at this level are, however,
highly reputable. A recent initiative, for example, is the Hang
Seng School of Commerce, a non-profit-making institution registered
under the Education Ordinance and offering basic full-time training
at post-Form V level in commercial and financial fields to students
who are unable to further their studies in the universities or
Polytechnic.
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Three colleges are registered as approved post secondary
colleges under the Post Secondary Colleges Ordinance the Hong Kong
Baptist College, Hong Kong Shue Yan College and Lingnan College.
The 1978 White Paper announced that the government intended to
regularise the role of these colleges (which the Ordinance envisaged
as private institutions offering four-year courses for Form V leavers)
by making financial assistance available to them on condition they
re-structure their courses to provide two-year courses at the sixth-
form level and further two-year courses leading to professional or
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