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DRAFT SPEECH BY HON MRS RITA FAN LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL 23.1.85

Education Commission Report No. 1

Sir,

I believe most people in Hong Kong welcome the remarks in the Education Commission Report No. 1 when it stated:-

"human resources have been, and will remain, a principal asset of Hong Kong, and that education is the key to their development."

and

"within the resources available, the needs of the community must first be considered, though in a free society, the wishes of the individual should, within this constraint,

be accommodated as far as possible."

Accepting this approach, there can be a very wide range of methods, using combination of different means, to achieve the end. It is therefore not surprising that diverse views are expressed with regard to this Report, and to these, Sir, I

shall add mine.

Junior Secondary Education Assessment System (JSEA)

The area that attracted most attention was naturally

JSEA.

The pressure that this system has brought on to the junior secondary school students, their parents and their teachers, is intense to say the least. agreed that JSEA should be phased out.

Virtually every one

The question rests with

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