BUILDING OF JUNIOR COLLEGES

Mr Yeo Toon Chia asked the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education (a) how many junior colleges will be built during the next five years and where; and (b) whether there are plans to build a junior college in Ang Mo Kio, and when it will be completed.

The Senior Minister of State for Education (Dr Tony Tan Keng Yam) (for the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education): Mr Speaker, Sir, I am answering this question on behalf of my Minister.

Seven junior colleges will be built within the next seven years, and these will be sited as follows:

(1) in Marine Parade, to be completed by July 1983;

(2) in Ang Mo Kio, to be completed by July 1983;

(3) at Mount Sinai Road, off Holland Road, to be completed by December 1983;

(4) at Jurong West, to be completed by December 1983;

(5) at Tampines, to be completed by December 1984;

(6) at Woodlands, to be completed by December 1985;

(7) at Nee Soon, to be completed by December 1987.