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But regardless of the size of the bill, it is
difficult to see what educational benefits will accrue
by the immediate abolition of the JSEA. As there are
insufficient satisfactory places for all Form 3 leavers,
it would still be necessary to retain an allocation
system to decide who gets a satisfactory place and who
does not. In other words, the JSEA would have to be
retained and the easing of pressure which
Mrs Selina Chow has so hoped for would not materialise.
Where the private schools can offer a
satisfactory standard of education it is the Education
Commission's recommendation, accepted by Government,
that form 4 and 5 places should be bought.
This is part
of the package of recommendations designed to produce a
significant increase in the quantity of post-Form 3
education without sacrificing quality and this package
can only be seen as sensible, reasonable and, above all,
achievable. It will enable the JSEA to be phased out in
1991.
Mrs Pauline Ng may wish to know that one
possibility of advancing this date would be if the
satisfactory private schools were to expand their
capacity or if the unsatisfactory private schools were
to improve their standards to an acceptable level. In
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