TALKS are underway among local tertiary institutions which come under the Joint University Programmes Admissions System (JUPAS) to allow students to change their JUPAS choices after the release of the Advance Level Examination results.
Dr Jerry Yu Jer-tsang, chairman of the JUPAS operation committee, said the seven institutions - the University of Hong Kong, Chinese University, City University, Baptist University, University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Lingnan College - are considering the possibility of the move.
'We have three to five proposals at the moment. One of them suggests a full-scale change of all the 20 choices students make under JUPAS while others allow a flexible change,' said Dr Yu.
'The institutes will give their reports on the proposals to JUPAS by the end of this month and a meeting will be summoned in November to discuss the issue.' Dr Yu said he was personally for the move but whether the proposal would go through depended on the institutes' responses.
He reckoned that the proposal which allows students to make their choices all over again after the release of the exam results was the same as re-applying.
However, he added: 'The first step we could make at this moment is probably to allow students to alter some of their choices, not all. And we will see how it works.
'Whichever proposal goes through, the idea is to finalise the choices after the release of the exam results and before school starts.' A-level results are scheduled to be released on July 12, 1996. Under the current JUPAS policy, students have until May 31, 1996 to change their choices of courses.
