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based on ability and parental choice, some schools

would attract a higher proportion of the ablest

students: hence the Director of Education would

select certain schools to develop a fully

symmetrical structure of five streams throughout

Forms I

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V: this would minimise transfers between

schools after Form III.

(ii) some restructuring of prevocational schools to

take place, to enable a limited number of senior

secondary forms to be started for students capable

of becoming technicians;

(iii) flotation to be adopted in junior forms to facilitate

the restructuring arrangements but extended day

arrangements not to be pursued;

(iv) the government to aim to meet the full demand from

suitable students for subsidised senior secondary

education: due to the continuing decline of the

15-year-old population (which would be reduced by

more than 30 per cent in the decade 1977 86) the

places available in 1981 would provide for about

(v)

63 per cent of the population in 1986: it was considered

important that available provision did not run ahead of

demand;

the Codes of Aid to be revised to give the Director

necessary controls to prescribe the structure and

size of classes within public-sector schools (in

order to achieve policy targets);

(vi) capacity for 12,700 places on first-year courses at

the post-Form III level to be provided in technical

institutes by 1981, increasing to about 15,000 with