Education minister also dismisses call to let non-local students attend public primary and secondary schools amid diminishing population size
The Hong Kong government will review whether to allow more semi-private secondary schools to offer a non-local curriculum on a self-financing basis, the education minister has said.
Secretary for Education Christine Choi Yuk-lin on Wednesday also dismissed a call to let non-locals attend public primary and secondary schools amid a local student population decline, explaining that the language of instruction was Cantonese and the curriculum targeted Hongkongers.
Choi revealed the syllabus plan in a reply to lawmaker Peter Douglas Koon Ho-ming, who asked whether authorities would let schools under the direct subsidy scheme (DSS) allocate more places to those studying a non-local curriculum.
“We now let international schools and DSS schools offer the International Baccalaureate (IB), but parents, particularly those coming from overseas, find the places to be insufficient ... will authorities increase the relevant places in DSS schools?” Koon said in a Legislative Council meeting.
