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24.

The Green Paper was published in November 1977 as tentative

proposals to serve as the basis for wider consultation before final

decisions were taken. Its principal targets and recommendations were

as follows:-

(i)

the government's prime objective for education

over the next decade to be to an expansion of

the opportunities for students to continue their

education on a subsidised basis in schools and

technical institutes after completing Form/

Middle III; much emphasis to be placed on

improving the quality of education, in particular

through improved teacher training and in-service

training arrangements and through increased

resources for schools; in tertiary education,

the expansion of the universities to continue;

(ii) the government's aim to be the provision of a

range of opportunities, mainly in schools and

technical institutes, for students to continue

their education on a subsidised basis after

completing Form/Middle III; the 1974 White Paper

targets to be improved by the provision by 1981

in government, aided and private non-profit-making

schools of sufficient Form/Middle IV places, with

subsequent progression up to Form/Middle V, for

50 per cent of the 15-year-old population; at the

same time, full-and part-time places to be provided

on craft-level courses in technical institutes for

another 14 per cent of the age group; by 1986, such

subsidised senior secondary places to be available

to 63 per cent of the population with subsidised

places on craft-level courses in technical institutes