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Included in the measures to achieve these targets is a programme approved
in December 1979 to open 28 new secondary schools (16 standard schools and
12 prevocational schools), bringing the total number in the secondary school
building programme to 130. The new schools will be located in developing
areas, such as the new towns and market towns and in those urban areas which
are currently under-provided with secondary school places. Twelve of these
schools will be built privately but they will be publicly financed by means
of government subvention, while the remaining 16 will be financed and built
through the Public Works Programme. 10 more secondary schools were completed
in 1980-81. More Form IV V places are being made available by the
restructuring of class organisation in aided schools, by the conversion of
certain private-non-profit making schools into fully aided schools and by the
opening of Forms IV and V classes in prevocational schools. To alleviate the
effect of delays in the building programme, arrangements have been made, as a
temporary measure, to operate Form IV classes in new and developing schools and
to advance the opening of some schools by the use of borrowed premises.
Form VI places
5.19 The provision of Form/Middle VI places in the government and aided
sector accords with the 1974 White Paper objective (re-stated in the 1978
White Paper) of providing subsidised Lower or Middle Form VI places for
one-third of the pupils entering subsidised Form/Middle IV places, with
progression to Upper Form VI in schools operating a two-year sixth-form
course. The following table illustrates the planned build-up of Form VI
places over the forecast period including provision in the approved post-
secondary colleges which have joined the scheme of government assistance
(1978 White Paper) and bought places in private non-profit-making schools
which have not joined the scheme for conversion into aided schools:
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