The SCMP's front page screams 'F' for HK students in English proficiency stakes...

More than two in four Hong Kong Chinese students granted permanent residency in Australia after graduating from its universities last year did not have competent English language skills, research released yesterday shows.

Data collated from immigration tests carried out when the graduates applied for permanent residency visas showed 42.9 per cent of the Hong Kong students failed the language competency tests, only slightly better than the 43.2 per cent from the mainland who failed it.

Recent maths studies have shown that a proportion of "more than two in four" is above 50%, whereas 42.9% is actually "more than two in five" but significantly less than "two in four". "Two in four" is also handily written as "one in two".

This is Hong Kong's alleged paper of record.

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