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Communist schools and the Public Sector

5.

The public sector of education consists of schools

run by Government or by approved bodies which receive subvention. As private schools, the communist schools charge fees at all levels. It is therefore difficult for them to keep up their enrolment in competition with the public sector, which provides 9 years free education for all. Hence the decline in the number of these schools in recent years. In recent years they

have made a number of approaches to Government for entry to the Bought Place Scheme which would give them a foothold in the public sector and would lighten some of their financial

burden.

Conclusion

6.

The existing policies that the Hong Kong Government has adopted in dealing with communist schools go back to the days when a confrontational approach towards the Hong Kong Government was adopted by communist controlled organisations in Hong Kong. Much has changed since then and a review of the existing practice is now under way.

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