CONFIDENTIAL #2
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GF 323
CONFIDENTIAL ##
RI
Subject
16. Hong Kong
Students Overseas
(Cont'd)
17.Use of Language in Education
18. Policy on
Industrial
Training
Purpose
To strengthen the teaching of language in schools, and to review the policy on the language of instruction in secondary schools.
To promote industrial training through the Hong Kong Training Council.
Progress made and present position
for students who are experiencing financial hardship as a result of the higher overseas student tuition fees during the current academic year. The second is a longer term loan scheme, which is more carefully means- tested, and provides loans up to a maximum of the difference between the appropriate home and overseas fee, and may be applied for before the student leaves Hong Kong.
The Governor-in-Council approved proposals for improving the teaching of Language in Education on 14 April 1981 and sought further details on the Chinese Language Foundation. These were considered by the Executive Council on 28 April 1981, when it was decided that the decisions reached at the Executive Council meeting of 14 April should be announced together with a statement that the feasibility of establishing a Foundation for improving the use of Chinese in Hong Kong, with the Government playing a major part in funding, was being studied.
(a) A progress report on the recommendations
made by the Advisory Committee on Diversification was considered by Executive Council on 7 April 1981.
(b) Drafting instructions for the pronosed statutory training authority have been prepared and circulated for eomment and have been accorded high priority.
Next quarter target
To monitor the implementation - of the proposals.
To prepare further progress report on outstanding items in six months.
To finalise drafting linstructions and
financial arrangements
and to introduce Bill into Legislative Council.
progress.
(c) The future role of the technical instututes To monitor
has been discussed by the Committee to Review Post-secondary and Technical Education which has tentatively concluded that they should be combined with the centres. operated currently by the Training Council into a new department. The drafting instructions at (b) do not inhibit this.