and testing systems at Primary 6 and Form 3 levels and the public examination systems to assist in research on overall standards and the effect of educational change on these standards. The technique would be to identify groups of students subjected to different educational influences and compare their relative progress. In addition the card system would be used to assist in the detection of drop-outs, the enforcement of compulsory education and to ensure that students transferring from one school to another did not repeat a year in so doing.
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Ways of ensuring that cards were not lost and that schools maintained the records would need to be devised, but the system itself would provide invaluable information to schools receiving pupils from other schools as well as for the research and monitoring purposes mentioned above.
6.22 If the suggestions made in this chapter are implemented in the way proposed, it is considered that the pressures in kindergartens which lead to the present undesirable style of kindergarten education may be lessened very considerably. It is also felt that the lack of interest in child care centres for the 4-5 age range is associated with the determination of many of them not to prepare children for the competitive entry to primary schools. that this situation will also improve.
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