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9.

The Director of Education has apparently taken on board

the need to improve and equalise the standards of English and

Chinese in secondary schools. Recommendations to give effect

to this have been included in a recent report on secondary

education in Hong Kong which has appeared as a green paper

subject to public debate. I understand that the Government

hope to publish this as a white paper in Spring/early Summer

this year.

8 March 1974

P.M. Kelly

P M Kelly (Miss) Hong Kong & Indian Ocean Department

I am grateful to

a

Thiss Kelly for her useful minute.

I think

Hong Kong

Каз

have

Jone

as far as is

wise in setting up two official languages. In

Particular I

sure that

thes

are

Densible

to stop short of

giving

Chriese official

statis in basislation,

done abowhere it

Where this has been

Lads to endless problems

in reconciling the two versions.

Thank you Haile 573

A useful minute 73.

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