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their academic limitations.

Would better technical institutes offering

shorter courses, perhaps on a full-time rather than a part-time basis

and linked with improved apprenticeship schemes help pupils and their

parents to make more appropriate choices? Should priority be given to

general education or to vocational education at school or post-school

level? Is it wise, given the long-term effects of kindergarten education

on children's attitudes to learning, that the pre-primary sector should

remain totally private, albeit with the qualitative improvements advocated

in the 1980 Green Paper? Is the servicing of the school system appropriate

are the Education Department and the government adequately organised to

serve the system they have created and are the schools adequately staffed

and organised, with buildings, facilities and resources appropriate to

their needs at the present stage of Hong Kong's educational development?

8.18

In terms of internal priorities within individual schools should

school authorities in the public sector be given more freedom over the

allocation of the resources made available to them (subject to overall

financial limits as determined by the provisions of the codes of aid and

to specific requirements governing salaries, etc.)?

Access and interface

8.19

Closely associated with questions of priority is the problem

of access to education and the stress caused by the competition to secure

the best advantages that education can offer. Given present circumstances,

are our systems of selection and allocation appropriate, efficient and just?

Are the arrangements described in the 1978 White Paper for those continuing

in full-time education after Form III satisfactory are we providing

enough places at this level and are the arrangements made for pupils to

progress from junior secondary to senior secondary education appropriate?

8.20 Given the fragmentation of sixth-form education, do the measures

proposed by the Board of Education and endorsed, with modifications,

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