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performance for the other programmes in the education service,

having regard to the need to ensure that the most effective

use is made of available resources.

(ii) The specific objectives are:

(a) with regard to the administration of approved policies in

the education service

(i) to provide supervisory services to schools on a

regular basis by officers of the Schools Division,

to ensure that the schools are properly administered

and that the quality of education offered is of an

acceptable standard;

(ii) to allocate primary school leavers to secondary schools

in accordance with the new allocation procedure

(Secondary School Places Allocation) which replaced

the Secondary School Entrance Examination in 1978;

(iii) to introduce in the 1980-81 academic year a system

of selection and allocation for post-Form III

education (Junior Secondary Education Assessment);

(iv) to provide advisory services to kindergartens, primary

and secondary schools, to raise the general standard

of the quality of education, to deal with specific

problems or changes in curriculum, and to organize

community youth programme activities in schools;

(v) to process applications for registration from teachers,

managers and schools in accordance with the requirements

laid down in the Education Ordinance, and to maintain

a register of all teachers, schools and school managers; (vi) to provide financial assistance to aided and private

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