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rate of the student population at the universities from 3 per cent to

4 per cent per annum. By 1983-84 there will be 11,620 students at the

universities and 12,000 full-time equivalent students (including evening

students) at the Polytechnic. The planned enrolment for September 1981

is 10,878 students at universities and 12,056 full-time equivalent students

at the Polytechnic.

The Codes of Aid

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C: Fees and subventions

There are at present four separate codes of aid prescribing the

rules and conditions governing financial grants to schools in the aided

sector.

These are:

(i) the Code of Aid for Primary Schools;

(ii) the Code of Aid for Secondary Schools;

(iii)

the Code of Aid for Special Primary Schools and Special

Classes in Primary Schools;

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(iv)

the Code of Aid for Special Secondary Schools and Special

Classes in Secondary Schools.

In addition, the Director of Education prescribes in a set of rules the

conditions on which financial assistance is made available to the approved

post-secondary colleges and their students. Aid to schools may consist of

one or more of the following grants:>

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(a) Recurrent grants: salaries grant, capitation grant, library

grant, administration grant, janitor staff and cleaning

grant, textbook and stationery grant, rent and rates grant

and passages grant.

(b) Non-recurrent and capital grants.

Salaries grants normally consist of the approved salaries for

all teaching staff, laboratory technicians and workshop instructors

employed in accordance with the terms of the appropriate code of aid

less the income from approved tuition fees. Where an aided school