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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1988
EXERCISE, WHICH WAB COMPLETED "IN THE FIRST RECRUITMENT MID-1987, 59 APPROPRIATELY QUALIFIED TEACHERS WERE ENGAGED.
IN
"THEY HAD A BRIEFING IN LONDON AND A TWO-WEEK INDUCTION
IN OUR IN HONG KONG BEFORE STARTING TO TEACH
IN SCHOOLS
1987.
COURSE SEPTEMBER
THEY ARK "SINCE THEN ANOTHER 23 TEACHERS HAVE BEEN RECRUITED. NOW GOING THROUGH AN INDUCTION
AND WILL START TEACHING IN FEBRUARY," HE ADDED.
COURSE
HE DISCLOSED THAT ONE OF THE ORIGINAL 59 TEACHERS HAD FOR PERSONAL REASONS.
RESIONED
IT WAS TO IN CONJUNCTION EXAMINATIONS
AS TO THE EVALUATION OF THE SCHEME, MR BRIDGE SAID BE DONE BY PROCEDURES DESIGNED BY THE BRITISH COUNCIL WITH THE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT AND THE AUTHORITY.
HONG KONG
"THESE TESTING PROCEDURES ARE AMONG THE MOST RIGOROUS ANY LANGUAGE TEACHING SCHEME ANYWHERE.'
"THEY ARE
BEING USED,
FIRST PUPILS TAUGHT
TO MEASURE BY THE
THE PUPILS, AND
USED IN
THE
LANGUAGE TEACHERS, MOTIVATION
THE
EXPATRIATE ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE SECONDLY, TO ASSESS THE EFFECT OF THE SCHEME IN INCREASING AND INTEREST AMONG
THIRDLY, CONTRIBUTION MADE BY THE EXPATRIATE TEACHERS TO THE THE SCHOOL, HE ADDED.
TO ASSESS GENERAL LIFE OF
SCHEME, MR THE PRESS,
MIGHT
COMMENTING ON DIFFICULTIES WITH THE FIVE-MONTH-OLD BRIDOE SAID: "DESPITE SOME RATHER SENSATIONAL REPORTS IN THERE HAVE IN FACT BEEN FEWER DIFFICULTIES WITH THE SCHEME THAN HAVE BEEN EXPECTED.
BUT
BY
OF CLASS CONTROL, LOCAL TEACHERS ALSO, AND CONCERNED TO
то FIND WAYS
"IN A FEW SCHOOLS THERE HAVE BEEN PROBLEMS SUCH PROBLEMS ARE ENCOUNTERED
THE SCHOOLS DISCUSSIONS ARE HELD WITH IMPROVE THE SITUATION.
HÁS BERN
ARE DISCUSSED
"ADAPTATION TO THE TEACHING ENVIRONMENT IN HONG KONG EASIER FOR SOME TEACHERS THAN FOR OTHERS, BUT PROBLEMS AND THE TEACHERS ARE GIVEN PROFESSIONAL SUPPORT IN A VARIETY OF WAYS."
/COMMENTING ON