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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;