The Hong Kong Education System
Chapter 3
The Administration and Control of Education
The administrative infrastructure provided for the wide range
of government services in Hong Kong is based on the conventions of
British colonial administration, but with recent organisational
modifications designed to bring modern managerial concepts and skills
to the day-to-day business of government. The existence of a uniform
and strongly centralised administrative system ensures that government
activities of all kinds are reasonably in phase and compatible with
one another in their general aims and approach. The administration of
education is thus consistent in all major respects with that of other
government services, particularly the social services.
3.2
In considering the administration of educational services,
account needs to be taken of the constitutional and central administrative
background, since this has largely determined the system by which such
services are provided. This background is outlined in appendix B, which
briefly describes:
(a) the role of the Governor;
(b)
the composition and functions of the Legislative Council
and the Executive Council;
(c) the role of the Finance Committee of the Legislative Council
and its sub-committees;
(a) the wide-ranging duties of the Unofficial Members of the
Executive and Legislative Councils (UMELCO):
(e) the role of the Urban Council;
(f) the extensive network of advisory bodies;
(g) the civil service;
(h) the role of the Chief Secretary;