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The Consolidated Account expenditure on education (33) in 1985-86 will be $7.81 billion. This is 17% of total Consolidated Account expenditure and a 10.7% increase over 1984-85. Of this amount we will spend $725 million on constructing and equipping new buildings, which is similar to that in 1984-85. A major footnote to the printed speech illustrates the financing of our policies with regard to primary and secondary education including the phasing out of the JSEA, to vocational training, and to tertiary education (34). I do hope that those who clamour for even faster advances will study the huge sums of money involved, and ponder how more could be

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(33) The Education programme comprises pre-primary, primary and secondary education, adult education, post-secondary, tertiary education and vocational training.

(34) The Government's policy is to provide primary schools within a reasonable walking distance for all primary school age children; to provide a subsidised place for all Primary 6 leavers; to increase the number of senior secondary places in schools and places at technical institutes and adult education centres to meet the full demand from Form III leavers who are suitable for the courses provided; and to phase out the Junior Secondary Education Assessment by 1991. To help meet these objectives, ten primary schools, providing 19,200 places mainly in the new towns, and five secondary schools providing initially 1,280 Form I and 640 Form IV places will be completed in 1985-86.

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As regards vocational training, work has started on the building of two new technical institutes, one at Sha Tin and the other at Tuen Mun, and work on a third new institute at Chai Wan will start this year. When completed, the three new institutes will provide an extra 5,000 full-time and 21,000 part-time places. A training centre complex at Kowloon Bay has been completed and another at Kwai Chung will completed in mid 1985. The complexes will provide 8,000 training places a year in nine industrial training centres. In addition, the Vocational Training Council will complete a Gas Industry Training Centre at Kwai Chung, a Precision Tooling Training Centre at Kowloon Bay, and an Insurance Training Centre in Wan Chai in 1985-86. These three training centres will provide about 1,300 training places a year. The total grants to the Vocational Training Council will increase from $404 million in 1984-85 to $433 million in 1985-86.

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of tertiary education includes new buildings for the University of Hong Kong and The Chinese University of Hong Kong and the development of courses at the City Polytechnic in its temporary premises at the Argyle Centre. Planning for the City Polytechnic's permanent accommodation at Tat Chee Avenue is proceeding and site formation should start in 1985-86. Total expenditure on the universities, the

polytechnics and the Baptist College will be $1.71 billion in 1985-86 compared with $1.54 billion in 1984-85.

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