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MRS. CHOW: Sir, referring to the last few lines of the

penultimate paragraph of

of the answer, can we be informed

what the main problems envisaged by those teachers who are

encountering difficulty adapting to our teaching

environment are, and what measures have been taken

resolve them?

to

SECRETARY FOR EDUCATION AND MANPOWER : I think the

problems to be encountered by people coming into a new

culture are fairly self-evident; I mean, some people find

it easier to adapt than others. I felt I had given a

fairly detailed reply in my original reply as to what is

being done. The British Council is giving very full

support to the teachers

the teachers in the way outlined in the last

paragraph of my first reply. It seems to me that it is

difficult to envisage how more support could be given than,

is already being given in the ways suggested.

MR. DESMOND LEE : Sir,

Sir, may

"sensational reports in the press" and ask which of these

reported difficulties proved to be untrue?

may I refer to the mention of

one

SECRETARY FOR EDUCATION AND MANPOWER : Sir, I am not

suggesting that anything was untrue. I am suggesting that

particular report was rather unbalanced in my

in my view.

One newspaper produced a very positive report and then a

few weeks later produced an extremely negative one. The

second report was very difficult to

reconcile with the.

first report in the same newspaper.