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Draft Speech for SEM for Adjournment Debate on First Report of the Education Commission - 23/1/85

Sir, I am grateful

am grateful to Dr Ho Kam-fai for

proposing this adjournment debate and to all Members who

have given their views this afternoon. Members who have

spoken have, in one voice, given due recognition to the

Education Commission for the full and careful

No 1.

deliberation given to the issues discussed in its Report

To this, I must also add the Government's

appreciation to the Hon Q W Lee, the Commission's

Chairman, and all members of the Commission, for

producing such sound and practical recommendations

within a very limited time.

It is perhaps worth reminding ourselves

initially what the Education Commission was asked to do

The Commission's remit from the

in its first report.

Governor-in-Council when it was set up in April 1984 was

to consider the major observations in the designated

priority areas in the report of the Panel (of Visitors)

and to report back within six months of its