61.   Hong Kong is to start teaching in Chinese instead of English next year, the education department here said Monday.

62.   In a separate move the education department said teaching and learning of English in schools will remain a government priority.

63.   The students are demanding that manpower training centres in North-West province fall under the control of the education department rather than the labour department.

64.   Schools and sponsoring bodies will be consulted in April and May before the proposals are finalised, a spokesman for the education department said.

65.   South Africa officially desegregated schools and merged separate education departments into one from the beginning of the new school year last month.