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Two major policy documents will be published in 1981 a White Paper on

Primary Education and Pre-primary Services and the report of the Committee

Because the education

to Review Post-secondary and Technical Education.

provided in the English schools has tended to present characteristic

problems the various references made to it among the above-mentioned

policy documents are disregarded for the purposes of this summary. The

development of policy towards the English sector and the current position

are described in the Report of the Committee to Review the Application of

the Parity of Subsidy Principle to the English-speaking Schools, which was

accepted in its entirety by the Executive Council on 23rd September 1980.

Since the policy documents are too voluminous and detailed in

argumentation to summarise in full, only the most salient points and

recommendations are detailed in the following pages.

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1963 Report of Education Commission

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The 1963 Education Commission was appointed by the Hong Kong

Government with the following terms of reference:

'Having regard to (a) the general circumstances, including

the economy of Hong Kong; (b) Government's policy for the

provision of primary and secondary education: excluding the

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University and Grant Aided Post Secondary Colleges2, generally

to examine and make recommendations on: (a) the overall needs

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of the Colony in respect of education and the most economical

and practical way of fulfilling these needs; (b) the system

of financing education, including public and private revenue

and expenditure, having particular regard to the competing

claims on the Colony's limited available funds of the many

interests involved in the whole sphere of social service.'

The commissioners were Mr R.M. Marsh, Education Officer, Hampshire County

Council and Mr J.R. Sampson, Treasurer, Hampshire County Council.

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The University of Hong Kong.

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United College, New Asia College, Chung Chi College the constituent

colleges of the future Chinese University of Hong Kong.