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for a further 20 per cent of the population;

other types of public-sector place to be available

for the Form/Middle III leaver in adult education

centres and in special institutions such as the

Police Cadet School; It was noted that there was

separate provision for children of expatriate families

and those within the ambit of special education, and

that some students might choose to go to private

independent schools even when sufficiently publicly-

provided places were available.]

(iii) the curriculum of Forms/Middle IV-V to be broadened,

in particular to include a greater emphasis on practical

and technical subjects; It was noted that the development

of new subjects would enable students of different aptitudes

to be provided for, though the nature of the courses should

continue to be geared to the needs of the abler section of

the population who were capable of satisfactory performance

in the HKCE. The range of subjects in this examination

should be broadened similarly, though the existing

standard of grades A-E should be maintained.

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(v)

a sixth technical institute to be built at Tuen Mun,

if justified by the support given by industry to the

earlier institutes and if required to support the

developing industries in the vicinity of Tuen Mun;

a common credit unit system between technician programmes

of study at the technical institutes and the Polytechnic

to be developed to assist mobility between institutions;

the government to continue the policy, derived from the

1974 White Paper, of providing a subsidised Lower VI

place (with progression to Upper VI in schools with a

two-year spMEMENTIre) for up to one third of