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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