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FEE INCREASES AT ENGLISH-SPEAKING SCHOOLS
BACKGROUND
In Hong Kong there are a small number of
"English-speaking" schools which, although they are
attended mostly by expatriate children, also
attract a considerable number of English-speaking
Chinese children.
There are six Junior and two
Secondary schools in this category which are
either run by the Government or, in the case of one
Junior and one Secondary school, by the English
Schools Foundation with Government aid.
2. In 1965, the Hong Kong Government officially
adopted a policy of parity of subsidy to English
and Chinese-speaking schools of the same
educational standard. In the White Paper on
Education Policy published in April 1965 it was
proposed that "the more expensive education
provided in English schools should not be a charge
on public funds". Certain modest increases were
proposed to take account of increasing costs with as recently as the beginning of
but reven
the result that, in 1971, fees stood at HK$480 for
primary and $1,500 for secondary, English-speaking
schools.
NEW POLICY OF THE GOVERNMENT
3.
In May 1971, the Government announced that
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