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(xiii) the government to provide schools only

where an aided school could not be provided ("In

general, education can be provided more economically

in aided than in government schools and, in a period

when educational facilities must be expanded, the

capacity to do so is inevitably affected by cost;

the more economical the cost, the greater the

capacity for expansion.")

(xiv) in view of (xiii), to simplify the method of

calculation of subsidy to aided schools and the

administrative processes connected therewith; to

ensure that grants produced by a new simplified code

of aid were adequate (when taken with the approved

fees to enable schools to operate efficiently and

pay the prescribed staff salaries);

(xv)

to introduce uniform salary scales for teachers

in government and aided schools (the White Paper

reserved its position on specific salary proposals

since those recommended by the Education Commission,

relating remuneration to responsibility, were very

radical).

1973 Green Paper: Report of the Board of Education on the Proposed Expansion of Secondary Education

12.

Following the publication of the 1965 White Paper, free primary

education was subsequently introduced in all government and aided primary

schools (with the exception of the Junior English Schools and a minority

of subsidised schools) in 1971, by which time sufficient places had become

available for every child in the primary age-group. The 1965 White Paper

recommended that 15-20 per cent of those completing the primary course

should receive subsidised secondary education. In 1970, the government,