MRS. CHOW: Sir, referring to the last few lines of the
penultimate paragraph of
of the answer, can we be informed
what the main problems envisaged by those teachers who are
encountering difficulty adapting to our teaching
environment are, and what measures have been taken
resolve them?
to
SECRETARY FOR EDUCATION AND MANPOWER : I think the
problems to be encountered by people coming into a new
culture are fairly self-evident; I mean, some people find
it easier to adapt than others. I felt I had given a
fairly detailed reply in my original reply as to what is
being done. The British Council is giving very full
support to the teachers
the teachers in the way outlined in the last
paragraph of my first reply. It seems to me that it is
difficult to envisage how more support could be given than,
is already being given in the ways suggested.
MR. DESMOND LEE : Sir,
Sir, may
"sensational reports in the press" and ask which of these
reported difficulties proved to be untrue?
may I refer to the mention of
one
SECRETARY FOR EDUCATION AND MANPOWER : Sir, I am not
suggesting that anything was untrue. I am suggesting that
particular report was rather unbalanced in my
in my view.
One newspaper produced a very positive report and then a
few weeks later produced an extremely negative one. The
second report was very difficult to
reconcile with the.
first report in the same newspaper.