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(xiv) the HKCE to continue to be used as the basis

for selection for entry to Form/Middle VI;

selection to continue to be the responsibility

of school authorities taking into account broad

guidelines governing standards of entry laid

down by the Education Department;

(xv) in order to improve the quality of secondary

education and in view of the rapid expansion

planned for the public sector, steps to be

taken to ensure an adequate supply of qualified

teachers; consideration to be given to the

extension of educational television to secondary

schools; the curriculum development committees

to make syllabuses more relevant to the needs

of pupils in a changing and more demanding society;

(xvi) the additional public-sector places required under

this policy to be obtained by flotation/extended

day but not by bisessional operation or rotation,

for reasons explained with effect from 1975 in

Forms/Middle I - III of government and aided schools,

with the balance of places necessary to make up the

target of 100 per cent provision at these levels to

be 'bought' in private schools; long-term requirements

to be met by a school building programme (an estimated

161 new secondary schools required);

(xvii) the present system of fee remission in secondary

schools to continue for so long as the government

was unable to accept the high cost which would be

involved in making secondary education wholly free.