Table of Content Section1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9 Appendix1|2|3|4|5|6|7 Notes|Executive Summary|Download(PDF format, 798KB) Appendix 5: Consumer Council Recommendationson the Issue of the Provision of Sponsorship, Teaching Aids and Donations toSchools by Textbook Publishers (Extracted from the Council's March 1999Report 'Study of Market Practice in the Textbook Industry') RECOMMENDATIONS Having regard to the results of the abovestudy, the following measures are proposed for consideration: a) ??? b) ??... c) The Education Department, the ICAC andschools should devise guidelines that differentiate between essential teachingaids and equipment, as well as sponsorship and donations, and set out anacceptable limit that schools can accept. d) The Education Department should undertake astudy into the costs of, and the utility of various teaching aids. This is togauge how much the provision of teaching aids adds to the cost of textbooks andwhat extra resources would be required if the provision of teaching aids wasseparated from the supply of textbooks. e) Teaching aids that do not come as apackage, and other items of teaching equipment should be treated as separateitems from textbooks. If they are unpaid, the schools should record these itemsas donations in a public inventory of donations. Alternatively, publishers couldissue invoices for them as individual items. f) The Education Department should berequested to add the following provisions to their guidelines: i.    Schools should record, in a public inventory of donations, made available for inspection on request to the public, any incentives received from suppliers in the form of goods or services such as teaching aids, equipment, sponsorship or other donations. ii.    Acceptance of complimentary textbooks should be confined to teachers' desk copies as this would add costs to textbooks. Schools are encouraged to record additional complimentary copies in the public inventory of donations.