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Question No. 1

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Reply by the Hon. J.N. Henderson, OBE, JP Secretary for Education and Manpower to a Question by the Hon. Desmond LEE Yu-tai in the Legislative Council on 13 November, 1985

What is the Government's policy towards private

secondary schools with regard to their present

role in the education system and future survival.

Answer:

Sir, I assume that this question refers to the

private independent schools which have been in

the headlines recently, and not to the private-

non-profit making schools from which we also

buy places.

The 1978 White Paper on The Development of Senior

Secondary and Tertiary Education stated that:

"The Government will not extend the bought-place

scheme to senior secondary forms in private

independent schools and will terminate the buying

of junior secondary places in schools of this type

which do not have good facilities and operating

standards".

In brief, the present policy is that Government

will continue to buy places in those private

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