Senior postings announced
A government spokesman today (Monday) announced that Mr Matthew Cheung Kin-chung, Deputy Head of the Central Policy Unit, will take over from Miss Jacqueline Willis as Deputy Secretary for Education and Manpower from March 29.
Miss Willis will succeed Mr Stephen Ip as the Commissioner for Labour in late April while Mr Ip will assume the post of the Secretary for Economic Services in June after attending a Tsinghua course.
Mr Joshua Law has replaced Mr Kevin Mak as the Deputy Secretary for Education and Manpower from March 1 after Mr Mak had left the Branch to take up the post of Vice-chairman, Administrative Officers Recruitment Board.
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Research into nine-year compulsory education
The Faculties of Education of the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the University of Hong Kong have been commissioned to conduct research into the existing nine-year compulsory education.
At a meeting today (Monday), members of the Board of Education (BOE) were told that the research will hopefully be completed in July as part of the initiatives taken by a sub-committee of the Board to review the school education system.
At a briefing on the work progress of the sub-committee, its convenor, Dr Tam Man-kwan, informed the meeting that so far, the sub-committee had held seven meetings and its two task groups had met 10 and eight times respectively.
The sub-committee has gauged views from primary and secondary school heads and teachers, school councils, associations and sponsoring bodies as well as tertiary institutions.
Dr Tam said these included the organisation of two public forums and a focus discussion session. The response was encouraging.
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