• In his 2000 Annual Policy Address, the Chief Executive observes that the Government is planning to double the current enrollments in Hong Kong’s Universities within ten years to allow sixty per cent of the secondary school graduates to receive tertiary education locally. • Pertaining to the issue of medium of instruction, if many of the top thirty percent of the current secondary school graduates cannot survive the English curriculum without Chinese support, what would make the sixty percent of secondary school graduates of the future to be in a better position to cope with an English university curriculum? • What is more, seventy per cent of the secondary school students nowadays are already studying with a Chinese curriculum.