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39.

During 1985 the Housing Authority agreed to provide self-care

hostels in public housing estates for the more able-bodied elderly

members of the population; these hostels were in addition to the

existing quota of shared flats and housing units for single persons

in public housing estates. For those requiring a greater degree of

personal care, the planning ratio for care-and-attention home s

raised from four to five places per thousand of the elderly

population.

(b) Education

40.

In the period under review,

demonstrated the high value they

opportunities. They set themselves

was

the Hong Kong Government again

place on extending educational

the

target of providing by 1991

in

enough subsidised places in Forms 4 and 5 (for children aged 15 and 16) in secondary schools, and in one-year full-time craft courses technical institutes and training centres, to satisfy the demand for

post-junior secondary education of 96% of the age group completing Form 3. The achievement of this target which will mainly involve

the construction of 24

secondary new

schools, will

phasing out of the unpopular Junior Secondary Education Assessment

which at system,

allocates Form 3 leavers

limited number of Form 4 places in the public sector.

41.

selects present

and

permit

the

to

a

During the year 28,000 full-time or equivalent part-time

students attended institutions of higher learning in Hong Kong, of

whom 13,000 were degree courses.

on

the Joint Funding In addition,

Scheme for Hong Kong students in Britain has provided a further

valuable source

In Hong of subsidised places in higher education.

Kong, the target figure for first year places in first degree

courses

announced

by

that

over 6,300

1994-95

just was

it would proceed with the

the Government

until

of a planning

third

University. The target for provision of first year degree places by

1994-95 was thus increased to over 7,500.

Polytechnic,

the

Hong Kong's

second

City Polytechnic, planning for which started in 1982, admitted its first students in October in temporary premises,

is being constructed. Planning for a

while its

campus permanen t

third University will commence shortly.

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