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Application of Section 68 of the Education Ordinance:

Miss FUNG Fee-foong

Section of 68 of the Education Ordinance (Cap. 279) provides

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that the Director of Education may refuse to issue a permit to teach

if the Director is satisfied that the environment in which the person

has received any part of his education has been such as to make the

person unsuitable as a teacher in Hong Kong.

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The powers now available to the Director of Education under

section 68 of the Education Ordinance (No. 52 of 1971), were first

enacted, and incorporated in the then current Education Ordinance by

section 30 of the Education (Amendment) Ordinance (No. 2 of 1958).

This amendment was made for political reasons, to provide the Director,

subject to appropriate right of appeal, with powers to prevent as far as

possible, political infiltration of the educational system. The establish-

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ment of these powers was a recognition that, in the years following 1949,

the communist regime had consolidated its hold over Kwangtung Province

and the educational system of this province, as of China as a whole.

It was clear that as a result of this consolidation of communist authority,

persons entering Hong Kong and having undergone education at primary,

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secondary, or post-secondary level in China, would have undergone a

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significant degree of idealogical indoctrination, such as to render them

unsuitable for employment as teachers in Hong Kong schools.

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Subsequent to the enactment of the relevant powers in 1958,

procedure for dealing with specific cases calling for consideration under

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