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we will continue to encourage and assist schools to employ native English-speaking teachers. As at September 1996, 87 native English-speaking teachers are employed in 53 schools;
to identify ways to improve the effectiveness of language teaching, the Education Department has recently commissioned a study on the workload of language teachers; and
to improve support services for language teaching, we will set up a Language Resource Centre later this year. Electronic media and computers will be used to develop links among school teachers and various institutions to enhance the exchange of teaching ideas and materials.
All these measures are aimed at improving the language proficiency of our students, including those from schools with consistently poor performance in the Chinese Language and English Language subjects in the HKCEE.
Prescription of antibiotics
Following is a question by Dr the Hon Huang Chen-ya and a written reply by the acting Secretary for Health and Welfare, Mrs Doris Ho, in the Legislative Council today (Wednesday):
Question:
Will the Government inform this Council:
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of the number of patients suffering from influenza who sought treatment at public hospitals as well as general out-patients clinics under the management of the Department of Health, and the number of these patients who were prescribed with antibiotics by the medical officers concerned, in each of the past three years;
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