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DR. TSE:

Sir, I am glad to hear that the Secretary is

fort

an

prepared to make recommendations for increase in

financial assistance to Lingnan College.

it is

Could I

ask whether the intention of the Education Department

to allow Lingnan College to drop its Sixth Form

course in the coming academic year, and to integrate

the rest of the 2 plus 1 programme into a three-year

post A-level course by providing subsidy for the

last year, which is not being subsidised at the

present?

SECRETARY

FOR

EDUCATION AND MANPOWER:

Sir, there is no problem over dropping the Sixth

Form. Subsidy for the fifth year, or the third

year as Dr. TSE put it, was certainly one of the

proposals we are looking at. I am not in a position

to commit myself on that at this stage.

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DR. HO:

Since

increased

financial

assistance

from the Government will be made available to

Lingnan College, will the Secretary for Education

and Manpower give clear indications to the college

as to which recommendations contained in the CNAA