Our honorable bureau eventually decides to surrender and gives up the MOI (Media of Instruction, 母語教學) policy in secondary schools. The policy is not a failure - it is a disaster.
Most of us agree that the English standard of our (university) students deteriorated a lot in the past 10 years - many of them have difficulties in writing a letter or expressing themselves in complete sentence. Of course it may not only be the result of our education system. Don't you write shorthands in emails and MSN ? But, the worrying bit is: our students do not end up with better capability of using Chinese. If you think their English letters are horrible, their Chinese ones are certainly not - you simply do not understand what they try to say (well, base on the assumption that they have used a few synapses and do have something to say).
PS. After some years of recession, economic "wake-up" (復甦) becomes a term that appears on TV news frequently. It is really disappointing - to say the least - that our dominant TV channel consistently mistaken the term "復甦" as "復蘇" in her evening news. No wonder our economy doesn't really wake up, it just sounds as if it is so.
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