examination classes and include English for special purposes, such as English for businessmen. The Institute also provides commercial
consultancy work for such business clients as China Light and Power and Cathay Pacific Airways. Additionally, the Council places great emphasis on assistance to the Hong Kong Government Education Department and its Institute of Langauge in Education to improve the standard of English teaching in Hong Kong schools. The largest such project has been the recruitment and management of 80 English teachers from Britain and Australia to teach in Hong Kong secondary
schools. This scheme was handed over to the Education Department in
September after a two year pilot period.
Education Exchanges
5.
Hong Kong is in the process of a major expansion of higher education which presents the Council with a challenge to forge closer links between institutions in the two countries, at a time when there is a preference in Hong Kong for links with the USA and Canada. In order to achieve this greater contact, the Council assists about 250 British academics a year to make short visits to Hong Kong. About a fifth of these visits are funded by the Council. Reciprocally, the Council also arranges for about 140 specialists to
make short visits to Britain each year.
Promoting British Education
6.
Since 1985 the Council has run an Education Counselling Service in Hong Kong which is funded by British Higher Education institutions and aims to provide advice and assistance to potential students at British universities, polytechnics and colleges. The service also includes promotional visits by representatives of British institutions, calls on schools and colleges, and biennial large scale exhibitions. In 1988/89 over 8,000 students made enquiries about study in Britain, and over 180 promotional visits
were made by British institutions.
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