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co-operation with UNESCO, the UNICEF international children's art exhibit in Canada and a special exhibit in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The Education Department art section's picture loan collection has continued to expand, and 91 schools now participate in this scheme.

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EDUCATION CONFERENCES

A residential conference on the teaching of English as a second language was held in August for the third year in succession at Chung Chi College of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. The conference was again organized under the chairmanship of Professor B. Hensman, head of the Department of English at the college. Amongst those taking part were Mr W. Wells, Director of Education Bi-National Centre, Saigon, Miss M. E. Platon, British Council Language Officer, Bangkok, Mr R. Hemphill, Co- Director of the Philippine Centre for Language Study, Philippines, and Miss B. Sutherland, of the Ford Foundation, Indonesia. The British Council and the Asia Foundation again gave generous assistance in bringing participants to Hong Kong. Lectures were given by visiting and local specialists in English Language teaching and discussions were held in groups and open forum. Overseas delegates attended from Brunei, Singapore and Taiwan. An im- portant feature of the conference was a book exhibition, organized with the co-operation of the British Council, the United States Information Service and local and overseas publishers. A report on the conference is in preparation.