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students entering subsidised Form/Middle IV places

two years previously: on this basis, a subsidised

Lower VI place would be available for 8 per cent

of the relevant population in 1981 and nearly 20 per

cent in 1986; The proportion of students in the

age group proceeding to tertiary education provided

or wholly subvented by the government would thus

nearly double over the next decade.]

(v) the normal minimum standard of entry to Form VI to

be three Grade C passes in the HKCE; consideration

to be given to the development of a common two-year

sixth-form course leading to a common matriculation

examination. This would be subject to public comment

on proposals already issued: the Board of Education

would be consulted before a final decision was made.

(vi) the approved post secondary colleges to remain as

e.]

private institutions; The government would continue

the existing limited scheme of assistance to needy

students of the Baptist College, but government

assistance would not be designed to increase the

total number of students provided for by the colleges

above the existing level.7

(vii) the number of students admitted to colleges of

education and other institutions providing vocational

training for the social services professions to continue

to be geared to the manpower requirements of the profession

concerned; the colleges of education to raise their entrance

standards, the length of the basic pre-service course to be

extended to three years, and a systematic programme to be