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CHAIRMAN:
Thank you.
Any further questions on this
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MR CHUNG:
I think the Secretary for Education and
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for determining the level of school fees and I understand that formerly in 1978 papers it is about 15%. Apart from the percentage,
would the review of school fee level take into consideration other
factors including the inflation and also the lapsing behind of these years because in July 1986 the Governor in Council approved increase in school fees that will reinstall the fees to their 1978 values only
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SEM:
As I said, we haven't yet discussed the criteria which we will follow. We simply have the decision so far
to restore the 1978 levels. We are about to hold meetings to agree
on criteria for future revisions. But my preliminary thinking is that we would aim to achieve a level of about 15% revised annually so as to keep up with inflation but this is subject to further
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MR CHUNG:
Yes. In other words the Secretary accept
that the review will be annual review of the policy regarding this
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Yes, indeed. Yes indeed.
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Yes.
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Mr Chairman, may I make one point, perhaps 33 just to supplement what I mentioned earlier. The Director of Audit 34 said that it took us, it took us a delay of six years to revise fees
This is incorrect because the '78 fees were phased
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The last phase of the increase was not
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