Director of Education to order attendance at primary or secondary school, cover children undergoing both primary and junior secondary education.
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Education at the primary and junior-secondary levels in the public sector is free. At the senior-secondary level, a fee remission scheme is in operation in the public sector, to ensure that no pupil allocated a place in this sector is debarred from taking it up because of lack of financial resources.
ARTICLE 15:
RIGHT TO TAKE PART IN CULTURAL LIFE AND TO ENJOY
THE BENEFITS OF SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS AND THE PROTECTION OF THE INTERESTS OF AUTHORS
16. In recent years, Hong Kong people have increasingly been able to pursue a considerable assortment of cultural, recreational and educational activities in their leisure time. Innumerable events are held, ranging from traditional Cantonese operas and puppet shows, to stimulating performances by local and international orchestras and entertainers. Thousands of sporting and recreational activities attract enthusiastic participants and supporters. Throughout the year, organizations such as the Urban Council, the Recreation and Sport Service, the Central Co-ordinating Committee for Youth Recreation, governing sports bodies and many voluntary associations, plan and co-ordinate a crowded calendar of events. January 1980, a Recreation and Culture Division was established within the Government Secretariat to take over executive control of the Recreation and Sport Service and the Music Office, and to assume policy responsibility for recreation and culture.
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Plans to improve and increase recreational facilities throughout Hong Kong are going ahead, ranging from smaller scale projects to international-standard sports stadia. The Queen Elizabeth Stadium, with a seating capacity of 3,500, was opened in August 1980. It provides indoor facilities of international standards for various sports and cultural activities. An even larger and more sophisticated indoor stadium, the Hung Hom Stadium, is scheduled to open in 1982 and will be able to accommodate about 12,500 spectators.
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The Urban Council and the Government are planning a cultural complex in Tsim Sha Tsui that will become the centre of Hong Kong's cultural life. Upon completion, its facilities for the arts will include a 2,300-seat concert hall for presenting unamplified orchestral music; a 2,000-seat lyric theatre for opera, ballet and stage shows; and a 350-seat theatre-in-the-round for drama and chamber music; an arts library and a new Museum of Arts. The Hong Kong Space Museum, which forms the first stage of the Tsim Sha Tsui Cultural Complex, was opened in October 1981. It provides the public with an exceptional entertainment venue in which knowledge of the universe, space exploration and related sciences are presented through sky shows, exhibitions, lectures in astronomy and telescopic observations. Hong Kong also has the world's largest oceanarium, the Ocean Park, and it is one of the most spectacular recreational and educational complexes in Asia.
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It is the general policy freely to permit, encourage and support scientific research, its application for the benefit of the community as a whole, and international contacts and co-operation between scientists. A far-reaching review
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