The Hong Kong Education System
Chapter 1
The Hong Kong Background
It is beyond the scope of this report to describe the social,
economic and cultural background to the Hong Kong education system in any
detail, though aspects of this background will be evident at several
points in the text the characteristic resourcefulness of the Hong Kong
people, their readiness to accept challenge and their determination to do the best for their children that circumstances will allow have all helped
to shape the education system and at the same time throw into clear relief
the educational problems which have emerged. This is particularly so, to
take one example, in the complex matter of language in education, which is
discussed in later chapters.
1.2
For a detailed description the reader is referred to the Hong
Kong Government publication Hong Kong 1981 - A Review of 1980. This provides a background of topical basic information on Hong Kong's industry and trade, financial system and economy, employment, primary production,
health, housing and land, social welfare, public order, immigration and
tourism, public works and utilities, communications and transport, the
media, the armed services and auxiliary services, religion and custom, recreation and the arts, the environment, population, natural history, history, constitution and administration. A chapter on education presents
a bird's-eye-view of current provision. The opening chapter of the publication is particularly recommended: 'Hong Kong: Yesterday and Today
A Personal View', by Robin Hutcheon, Editor of the South China Morning
This offers a synoptic view of Hong Kong's general development
since 1945.
Fost.