OCTOBER 30Education Minister Datuk Musa Hitam said efforts were being made to check the decline in the standard of English in schools.
He said during a visit to Sabah that the Ministry was recruiting 100 teachers from Britain for the purpose. “Of course to be frank English has suffered in schools with the switching of the medium of instruction to Bahasa Malaysia,” he said. A cargo ship was ordered to take back 841 bags of sugar which were found to be contaminated with sulphuric acid while being shipped to Sabah from Port Kiang.
The sugar was found to have been stored in the, same compartment as a consignment of sulphuric acid and was destined for Tawau. The Telecommunications Department launched its one millionth telephone exchange line with the commissioning of a computerised exchange system in Kota Kinabalu. The programme was designed to provide for the instailatio4 of another 1.4m exchange lints till 1985, to bring to two million, the number of such lines by the end of the fourth Malaysia Plan period.
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