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He stressed that great emphasis had been placed on environmental measures in planning the port and a number of major design modifications had been made to minimise environmental impact.

Mr Clark added: "An environmental impact assessment (EIA) on Terminals 10 and 11 was considered by the Advisory Council on the Environment (ACE) on February 20, having been preceded by very lengthy deliberations on the matter by the ACE Committee on Environmental Impact Assessment. The council endorsed the project."

End/Monday, March 20, 1995

Recruitment of teachers for TOC teams

The Education Department is increasing the input of experienced teachers into the development and teacher training of the Target Oriented Curriculum (TOC) by adding more teachers to its teams on the school-based preparatory programmes and design of teaching materials.

A circular is being sent to government and aided primary schools inviting serving Certificated Masters/Mistresses and Assistant Masters/Mistresses in the subjects of Chinese, English and Mathematics to take up temporary posts as tutors at the department's TOC Teacher Education Unit and members of the TOC Resource Development Team in the 1995-96 school year. Induction training will be provided to these teachers.

The recruits will be seconded to the Education Department for a year after which they will return to their own schools. A supply teacher will be employed for one year to fill the post vacated by the teacher who is on secondment to the Education Department.

A spokesman for the Education Department pointed out that the Advisory Committee on Implementation of TOC had recommended the appointment of experienced teachers to be tutors to assist in running a School-based Preparatory Programme to help schools better prepare for the implementation of TOC in the 1996- 97 school year.