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PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION
1st December 1971
for WRITTEN answer on
84W
Hong Kong Do
The draft reply should reach the Parliamentary Office through your Under-Secretary by
76
Noon Thursday 2/12
Mr James Johnson (Kingston-upon-Hull, West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what is the present position regarding the use of the Chinese language in the secondary schools of Hong Kong; and what changes are contemplated.
Mr. Anthony Royle.
There are two major types of Secondary School in Hong Kong:
Anglo-Chinese, and Middle Schools. The former teach all
subjects, apart from Chinese studies, in English; the
latter teach all subjects except English, in Chinese.
The aim is to improve the standard of English in the
Chinese schools and the standard of Chinese in the Anglo-
Chinese schools