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necessary at this time was a decisive planning approach
capable of implementation in a reasonable time-frame
without undue disruption to policies that have been
unfolding through the various White Papers on
Education. I am pleased to note that Mr Peter Wong
shares this view too.
Not unexpectedly, the recommendations in the
Commission's first report which have caused most comment
are those related to the future of the Junior Secondary
Education Assessment. Galls have been made by interest
groups for the immediate abolition of the JSEA by means
of purchasing sufficient Form 4 places from the private,
profit-making schools to provide a subsidised Form 4
place in September 1985 for every Form 3 leaver who
wishes to continue-his-school studies.
The approach of the Commission to this problem
nas been consistent with its overall remit : it has
aimed to improve the secondary education system as a
whole in quality and quantity. The JSEA itself has been
seen as the symptom not the cause of the present
deficiencies in the system. Contrary to the impression
created by the reaction of the various interested
parties, the Education Commission did not recommend as
such the abolition of the JSEA in 1991 or in any other
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