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otherwise face financial hardship.

27.

The principal targets and decisions of the White Paner

were as follows:

(i) the government to seek to increase the number

of subsidised senior secondary places beyond

the target proposed in the 1977 Green Paper

by providing for 60 per cent of the 15-year-

old population in 1981 and over 70 per cent

by 1986: these additional places to be created

primarily through the school building programme,

by building atensions in existing schools, by

introducing Form IV V classes in secondary

modern schools (hitherto providing only junior

secondary classes), and by buying places in

private non-profit-making schools and in some

existing private independent schools (subject

to their adopting non-profit-making status,

to their facilities and operating standards

being satisfactory and their places being

required to meet approved targets); the class

structure of schools to be altered to provide

more senior secondary forms (taking advantage

of the decline of the junior secondary population

by reducing the number of junior secondary streams

in asymmetrical schools); It was noted that most

of the existing fully-aided grammar and technical

schools would contain, after the full implementation

of flotation, six junior and four senior secondary

streams, which would remain the basic structure

for the majority of secondary schools but that

since the approved new allocation to Form 1 was