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'cramming' unnecessary.

At the sixth-form level, the school curriculum

is still determined in most schools by the Higher Level and the Advanced

Level examination syllabuses and regulations and these in turn are still

very much influenced by local university requirements. However, since

these examinations are now controlled by the HKEA, it is probable that

their future development will be undertaken in close co-ordination with

curriculum development in the sixth form, having regard to any reorganisation

of sixth-form courses which might result from the Board of Education's

recent recommendations.

in this work.

7.16

The CDC will of course play an important role

The CDC was formed at a time when the development of syllabuses

for junior secondary forms was an urgent priority in order to support

the coming extension of compulsory education to Form III. At the time

every endeavour was made to provide continuity from the primary

curriculum already in existence, but as work progressed it became evident

that had time permitted it would have been more satisfactory to redevelop

the primary and junior secondary curricula together, in order to provide

a nine-year continuum of basic studies. Now that viable syllabuses have

been implemented in most subjects for Forms I to V, the CDC is addressing

the task of a more co-ordinated approach to the basic nine-year course.

Since it is now government policy to invite unofficials to

chair major advisory committees it would seem appropriate that chairmanship

of the CDC should also pass to an unofficial. It is also thought by some

that the status of the CDC could be enhanced if it were to become a

statutory committee. Others believe that the funds at present available

for curriculum development are seriously inadequate for the tasks that

lie ahead both from the point of view of centrally organised projects

and those initiated by individual schools.

7.17

Audio-visual education

7.18

The Department has for many years made audio-visual equipment