TNAG-1073-FCO40-1323-Policy-of-the-Government-of-Hong-Kong-on-education-including-1981 — Page 400

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A8.

Inspector (Secondary); consideration should be

given to relieving inspectors and trained teachers

from purely administrative duties; the Inspectorate

should be strengthened by the appointment of personnel

responsible for advisory services in woodwork, metalwork

and handicrafts, and for research and guidance; the

Education Department's establishment should be reorganised

and strengthened; professional posts in the administration

should be open not only to teachers in government schools

but also to teachers in aided schools.

(xviii) An early investigation should be made into the many advantages

which would accrue from the installation of a centralised

system of automatic data processing to serve the financial

and statistical needs of the government.

(xix)

(xx)

Consideration should be given to increasing the

proportion of Chinese schools in which English is taught

as a second language.

The proposal to provide from 1963 onwards, for those

pupils who are unable to gain admission to a full secondary

course, a seventh year of education in Special Form 1 classes

is not a wise expenditure of money and should be deferred.

The commissioners concluded their report by stating that

they fully realised the government was faced with many problems and

that education was one of many services calling for development and

improvement: in their opinion, however, the rising scale of expenditure

which they had sought to illustrate was essential to the economy of

Hong Kong and the well-being of its people.