BRIEFING NOTES
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Schools
As at 30th September 1969, there are 2733 schools in the Colony
(kindergarten, primary, secondary and vocational) in the following categories:-
Government Schools
Grant-in-Aid Schools
Subsidized Schools
Private Schools
Special Schools
Total
134
22
669
1880
28
2733
OF THIS TOTAL, 42 ARE COMMUNIST-CONTROLLED SCHOOLS, CONSTITUTING 1.54% OF THE TOTAL NUMBER.
Pupils
As at 31st March 1969, total enrolment in all schools was 1,096,216 in the following categories:
Kindergarten Primary
Secondary
Vocational
Total
107,677
(9.8%)
725,672
(66.2%)
248,602
(22.7%)
14,265
(1.3%)
1,096,216
OF THIS TOTAL, 26,167 ARE PUPILS IN COMMUNIST-CONTROLLED SCHOOLS, CONSTITUTING 2.4% OF THE TOTAL, in the following categories:
Kindergarten
Primary Secondary
Vocational
Total
1,829 (1.7% of total enrolment) 17,748 (2.45% of total enrolment) 6,083 (2.45% of total enrolment)
507 (3.6% of total enrolment)
26,167 (2.4% of total enrolment)
Teachers in Communist-Controlled Schools
The great majority of teachers in communist-controlled schools are Permitted Teachers: i.e. they have completed a course of secondary education up to, or equivalent to, the standard of the Hong Kong Certificate of Education. Such teachers may teach only in the school in respect of which the permit is issued.
A small number, having completed ten years service as Permitted Teachers, were recognised as Registered Teachers before the 1967 disturbances. (Registered Teachers have completed a course of professional training, or possess qualifications regarded as equivalent.)
Communist-Controlled Schools During and Since the 1967 Disturbances
The disturbances commenced in May 1967, and reached a peak in the period July/August 1967. On the events of this period, the following extracts from the report, HONG KONG DISTURBANCES 1967 (prepared by Colonial Secretariat) are of interest:
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The main centres of the disorders were communist department stores, schools and trade union offices which offered a convenient assembly point for the rioters and a base for attack or retreat.
A disquieting feature of this phase was the growing employ- ment of school-children to carry on the work of confrontation presumably to fill the ranks depleted by the retreat of their elders. Most of these children were recruited from the comparatively few communist dominated schools in the Colony; by their willingness,