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(a) Education
(1) Overall review
An "'international Panel of Visitors from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation phd Development has now completed- an Overall Review of our education øypten. The Panel conducted two very successful public plonary sessions in Hong Kong earlier this year in which they pointed to major areas of concern. These included the nood to simplify our complex educational system and to improve our ability to formulate policy and plan new developments, The Panel's recommendationE will be carefully considered by the Government.
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(11) Standards
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Much has been achiovod OVOĽ the last decade, in
providing more primary and secondary education, and in raising
the standard Of teaching · in OUT schools. The Government recognises the central importance of toachoze in the education system and the need further to improve the quality of teaching, A otart has been made by improvements in staffing ratios, permit more remedial teaching and the encouragement of a wider range of extra-curricular activitios; and the curriculum has been broadened through the addition of now subjcots and greater emphasis on practical and technical subjects, to beet the needs of a wider range of pupila. In addition, Educational Television is being extended, class libraries
libraries introduced in primary schools and libraries in secondary schools improved. Teaching. centres have been established for languages, mathematics, science and social subjecto And a programme of systematic re-training of
of teachers án primary and secondary schools has begun.
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