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senior secondary forms and technical
institutes
to
meet expected future demand. The school building
programme continues and there are plans to complete
some 80 new secondary and prevocational schools by
1993. While measures are being taken to encourage
the greater use of vernacular Chinese as the medium
of instruction, higher standards of English are also
being sought in view of Hong Kong's importance as an
international centre. In this regard, a pilot scheme
has been started to provide secondary schools with
native English speaking teachers from overseas and
language courses have been organised in the United
Kingdom for local secondary school teachers of
English.
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The largest technical institute yet built
in Hong Kong was opened in September 1987 to add to
the seven already in existence. Its opening has
increased the number of full-time places for craft
and technician courses from under 4,000 in 1982 to
over 10,500 at present. Part-time places in the
institutes have also increased by 50 per cent over
the same period to over 46,500. These figures
indicate the high priority the Hong Kong Government
is according to the expansion of technical education
and industrial training.
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