In recent years, a large number of families have moved overseas in Hong Kong, which has led to many problems in primary and secondary schools. People in the educational community have requested that the Hong Kong government opens to mainland Chinese students at their own expense.
According to Lianhe Morning Post, the Hong Kong government is temporarily cautious about this proposal, worrying that it will cause Hong Kong's local parents to rebound, and there will be difficulties in operation, such as the accommodation arrangement of Lu Sheng in Hong Kong.In an interview with Hong Kong's enrollment consultants, due to resource issues, if you want to relax the number of mainland students to enter Hong Kong primary and secondary schools, the number of procedures should be set up in the early stage to achieve the situation of winning the three winning situations of mainland students, local students and schools.
The birth rate of Hong Kong has been low in recent years. With the wave of immigration, the school -age population has continued to decline.The statistical report released by the Education Bureau earlier showed that the entire Hong Kong lost 15,231 middle school students and 11,862 primary school students in the 2022 to 2023 school year, a total of 27,093 people, which means that these students will no longer stay in Hong Kong for further studies or schools.Delivery and leave Hong Kong.
TheReport pointed out that the loss rate of students in Hong Kong primary and secondary schools from 2022 to 2023 is 3.99%, which is a new high in the past three years.The loss rate of 2021 to 2022 is 3.64%, and 2.24%of the 2020 to 2021 school year.Hong Kong has lost nearly 68,000 primary and secondary school students in these three years.
Due to the serious rate of student loss, many primary and secondary schools in Hong Kong have frequently reported the news of shrinking classes this year.Recently, some educational circles and groups have spoken in the media, asking the Hong Kong government to open primary and secondary schools to enroll at their own expense to mainland students.Among them, the "Education Federation" in Hong Kong's largest group of teachers and unions issued an educational initiative at the end of June.Huang Jinliang, the chairman of the association and the representative of the National People's Congress of the Hong Kong District, said at a press conference that international has made suggestions on higher education in the past 20 years, but the relevant vision of Hong Kong is still blurred and the results are not good.The Association recommends that the Education Bureau considers additional international students with a specific number of international students to recruit outstanding high school students in the mainland and overseas.
The online media "Orange News", which has close relations with the China United Nations Office, also published a signature comment article on July 24 that due to the decline in the number of students in Hong Kong, not only did they have inadequate harvesting in middle schools, but even kindergartens and elementary schools would also be in middle school.The same situation occurs. "Since the biggest problem is currently inadequate, it is a good environment for students to come to the Mainland to grab students in the north to grab students in the Mainland, and to create more of the excellent environment of students from all over the country.
Lin Jianhua, an honorary consultant of the school's parliament directly, wrote in the letter on July 29 that the direct absorption of foreign talents was suspected of "grabbing rice bowls" with Hong Kong people, and social controversy was large.Therefore, innovative thinking is input students, and the controversy is relatively small.Once the introduction of overseas students is successfully introduced, it will not only play a role in ease the loss of future talents, but also drive the business development of the rental market, catering and tuition.
He believes that early students from overseas students come to Hong Kong to enroll, allowing them to adapt to and integrate into Hong Kong's life early. I believe that the chance of staying in Hong Kong after graduating from university is even greater.Alternative method.
Liang Yongle, a adviser to Hong Kong, said in an interview with Lianhe Morning Post that in recent years, some schools in China have been forced to close because of insufficient students.Essence
He believes that as a big international city, Hong Kong has a good reputation. If it is relaxed to the mainland students to go to Hong Kong to promote primary and secondary schools, I believe that it can attract many people to apply and provide a source of students for local schools.
But he pointed out that although mainland students need to pay tuition fees to enter the primary and secondary schools in Hong Kong, they will not use government resources, but may cause some concerns of Hong Kong parents, worrying that they will affect the local students.The contradictions between the two places, "In the early stage, it was best to allocate a certain number of places, first starting from direct capital (that is, semi -funded schools) and private schools to test water temperature, and then discussed the extension to other types of schools."