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Another survey of 2,502 students, the findings of which were also sent to the employers' associations, indicated that pupils in schools using Chinese as the medium of instruction in all subjects did better in the Hong Kong Certificate of Education Examination than those in schools using Chinese as the medium of instruction by subject.
The employer associations learned that a third survey on 2,380 Secondary 1 students found almost half of them (49.5 per cent) had difficulties with subjects taught in English while 67.1 per cent thought they would learn better if lessons were conducted in Chinese.
Only 15 per cent of teachers teaching Secondary 1 classes considered that the pupils had the required language proficiency for English medium teaching. Sixty-six per cent of parents of Secondary 1 pupils thought their children had difficulties in understanding textbooks written in English.
End/Monday, January 2, 1995
Speedpost pick-up service covers whole New Territories
The Postmaster General, Mr Mike Pagliari, announced today (Monday) that the Speedpost pick-up service would be extended to the whole New Territories on January 16.
"The New Territories is no longer a remote rural area. It is full of new towns, industrial estates and suburban residential areas," Mr Pagliari said.
"The postal service must keep pace with the development of Hong Kong, as it has for the last 154 years.
"The extension of the Speedpost pick-up service to the whole of the New Territories is intended to meet the needs of industrial and commercial concerns in the region," he added.
Speedpost is the courier service operated by the Post Office for the speedy transmission of documents, samples and merchandise overseas.
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