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English or languish - Probing the ramifications
of Hong Kong's language policy

Quality Assessment
Prioritization in Hong Kong Secondary Education
In search of a life-style
Major and minor subgroup comparison

Table 10
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Subject area Number of secondary school teachers by principal subject taught Major Subgroup1
  Minor Subgroup2 Total number of teachers  in this subgroup  Teachers with no subject- related training in the subjects of this subgroup  Percent of teachers with subject-related training in the subjects of this subgroup3
 
Civic Education 680 In search of
a life-style

Civic duty
and social responsibility		 1155  800 31%
Social Studies 475
Design and Technology 419
Work skills 1550 542 65%
Home Economics 466
Information Technology 305
Technical Drawing 180
Word Processing/Business English4 180
Accounting 607
Business 1444 474 67%
Commerce 345
Statistics 492
Art 268
Leisure 1633 278 83%
Art and Design 631
English Literature 152
Music 582
Total 
     
5782  2094  64%
English language 5703

The Big Three
   English language 5703 1176
 79%
Chinese language  5207          
Mathematics  4709        
Source: Department of Education, Planning and Research Division, Statistics Section. 2002 (May). Teacher Statistics 2001. Table 4.17 Distribution of secondary school teachers in post by subject taught by sector and formal training, p.99-101.
Note1: The major subgroups listed in this column were taken from table 6.
Note2: The minor subgroups under this heading are a further breakdown of the major subgroup "In search of a life-style" taken from table 6.
Note3: Subject-related training refers to both degree and non-degree training in the subject area. The percent number for each minor subgroup was obtained by dividing the number of those with subject-related training by the total number of teachers in each minor subgroup.
Note4: Although business people will be wont to classify word processing and business English in the subgroup business, these are skills that have a wide variety of applications including the management of domestic households.
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