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In deciding on its recommendations on the furth

expansion of post-Form 3 education to enable the JSEA to

be phased out, the Commission took into account all these

contance in the panapath Than gut quested.

points While it was apparent that there was much social demand for general education at the senior secondary level,

the Commission had to ensure that the needs of industry

would also be met: hence the need for the provision of

While it was additional technical and vocational places. apparent that there was much demand for quantity, the

Commission had to ensure that. this was achieved not at the

expense of quality:

schools and to buy Form 4-5 places only from the more .

hence the need to build more aided

satisfactory private schools. While it was apparent that

there was much demand for provision of places either through

building or buying, the Commission had to ensure that

physical expansion is not unaccompanied by the provision of an appropriate language policy, adequate trained teachers

and a broadened curriculum to cater for the needs of the

academically less able pupils: hence all the relevant

recommendations on these matters. While it was apparent

that indiscriminate buying of Form 4-5 places from private

schools might enable the JSEA to be phased out quickly,

the Commission had to pay regard to the fact that equity

and efficiency in the education system as a whole need to

be enhanced rather than diminished.