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Educatiu Cemin Report-No!

Draft speck & PelicWONG

23.1.84-

I strongly support the proposal of the Education

Commission to phase out the JSEA by 1991. I do so not

just because I am a member of the Commission, but because

I know for a fact that the Commission has examined every

aspect of the JSEA issue in the most careful and objective

way.

Allow me, Sir, to quote from para. 10 of the opening

chapter of the Commission's Report:-

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Underlying our deliberations have been

the fundamental issues which have confronted

education planners and policy-makers in most

parts of the world at one time or another.

Some of these are: how do we meet the challenges

of mass education up to the senior secondary

level at a time of rapid technological and other

changes; how do we resolve the problem of the

competing demands of, and for, general education

on the one hand and technical and vocational

education on the other; how do we strike a

balance between quantity and quality in education;

how should we apportion investment among school

buildings, curriculum development and teachers;

how can we achieve greater equity and efficiency

in the education system; and above all, how do we

harmonise the needs of the community and the wishes

of the individual within the resources available?"