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(xii) further expansion of the technical institutes

(providing the related technical education

required to complement the on-the-job training

provided by industry) to depend on the long-term

acceptability of technical institute trainees to

industry; technical institutes to provide a

substantial number of places for pupils leaving

prevocational and other schools after Form/Middle

III to obtain full-time technical training, and to

provide for the training of apprentices under art-

time day-release training schemes;

(xiii) individual school authorities to decide themselves

whether the medium of instruction should be English

or Chinese for any subject in junior secondary forms:

this would facilitate the adoption of appropriate

measures to ensure that there was no drop in the

standard of English of those proceeding beyond

Form/Middle III, at the same time enabling other

students to derive maximum benefit from their

education through the medium of Chinese; It

noted that full consultation with schools would be

necessary, that encouraging the greater use of

Chinese would necessitate the development of textbooks

in Chinese, the training of teachers who could use

Chinese effectively as the medium of instruction,

and the introduction of improved teaching techniques.

A pupil would be able to take each subject of the

Junior Certificate examination in the language

appropriate to him. The government would review

the arrangements for the language of instruction

as these developed.