ROLE OF CONTROL AGENCIES
With any country, you have different agencies that are controlling the education system. What needs to be taught, how to teach it and what is right for the children to know. There are two agencies that control the Hong Kong education system. These two agencies are the government and the religious groups. Let’s review each and see how much control they have in Hong Kong.
The government of China took control of Hong Kong recently from the British and appointed the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HK SAR) to control the education system. Before 1997, Hong Kong was a British colony and followed the British 6+3+2+2 model on education. The 6+3+2+2 model is 6 years of primary schooling, 3-years junior secondary, 2-years senior secondary and additional 2-years of education of preparation to a university. Now HK SAR has changed the 3-year junior secondary followed by 2-years of senior secondary to 3 years junior secondary to be followed by 3-years senior secondary. The HK SAR also created comprehensive examination, which before they were using the Hong Kong Certificate of Education Examination and the Hong Kong Advanced Level Examination. The Hong Kong government gives 12 years of free (Choi, Kam & Koo, 2003). The government divided up public funding into four categories which are government schools, aided schools, direct subsidy scheme schools, and private school. Government schools and aided schools are entitled free schooling through secondary school and used the government recommended curriculum. Direct subsidy scheme schools are government and have funded greater autonomy than government and aided schools. The government runs government schools and voluntary groups run the aided school. Private schools are given land leases and grants from the government ("Center on International,”).
The religious groups in Hong Kong are Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Sikhism and Judaism. Taoist, Confucianism, and Christian have schools within Hong Kong that teach their children the concepts and beliefs of their religion. Both communities run their own schools; Hinduism, Sikhism and Judaism do not show that they have a different education system for their children or own centers to teacher their values ("Hong Kong: the," 2013, October).
Hong Kong has changed each year; government has a stronger hold over how the education is run and who can run it. With the recent change of power in Hong Kong, it’s affecting the school systems that they have been using for over 50 years. Hong Kong government is changing everything from the curriculum to child ratio within the classroom. Some religious groups have schools within their system but not all of them have. These religious schools run on their beliefs and values.
The government of China took control of Hong Kong recently from the British and appointed the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HK SAR) to control the education system. Before 1997, Hong Kong was a British colony and followed the British 6+3+2+2 model on education. The 6+3+2+2 model is 6 years of primary schooling, 3-years junior secondary, 2-years senior secondary and additional 2-years of education of preparation to a university. Now HK SAR has changed the 3-year junior secondary followed by 2-years of senior secondary to 3 years junior secondary to be followed by 3-years senior secondary. The HK SAR also created comprehensive examination, which before they were using the Hong Kong Certificate of Education Examination and the Hong Kong Advanced Level Examination. The Hong Kong government gives 12 years of free (Choi, Kam & Koo, 2003). The government divided up public funding into four categories which are government schools, aided schools, direct subsidy scheme schools, and private school. Government schools and aided schools are entitled free schooling through secondary school and used the government recommended curriculum. Direct subsidy scheme schools are government and have funded greater autonomy than government and aided schools. The government runs government schools and voluntary groups run the aided school. Private schools are given land leases and grants from the government ("Center on International,”).
The religious groups in Hong Kong are Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Sikhism and Judaism. Taoist, Confucianism, and Christian have schools within Hong Kong that teach their children the concepts and beliefs of their religion. Both communities run their own schools; Hinduism, Sikhism and Judaism do not show that they have a different education system for their children or own centers to teacher their values ("Hong Kong: the," 2013, October).
Hong Kong has changed each year; government has a stronger hold over how the education is run and who can run it. With the recent change of power in Hong Kong, it’s affecting the school systems that they have been using for over 50 years. Hong Kong government is changing everything from the curriculum to child ratio within the classroom. Some religious groups have schools within their system but not all of them have. These religious schools run on their beliefs and values.