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closure.
The report also expressed the hope that the 16 teachers who will not be employed at St Theresas would be invited to apply for a place at the new school.
4.
The Hong Kong Government have accepted the report's recommendations and have already taken a number of practical steps to facilitate their implementation, including appointing the new Management Committee and making suitable premises available for the new school. At the suggestion of the new Management Committee, the Department of Education have agreed to withdraw the warning letters that were issued to Golden Jubilee School teachers last year, in order to make it easier for them to be appointed to the new school.
5. We understand from Mr Easey that the two teachers who were in England found the interim report broadly acceptable. They have now returned to Hong Kong, apparently intending to cooperate with the Education Department to try to make the proposed compromise work. do not yet know whether their colleagues in Hong Kong have taken a similar attitude. But the general public reaction in Hong Kong
We
seems to have been to welcome the interim report, and it seems likely that if any of the teachers do try to prolong the dispute, they will lose much of the public support and sympathy they have enjoyed
up to now.
6.
I recommend that Lord Goronwy-Roberts should reply to Mr Hooley
on the lines of the attached draft.
21 July 1978
W.E. Chantill
WE Quantrill
Hong Kong & General Dept
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