Schools Free To Use Grants Flexibly

[GeoDerek]

Secretary for Education Eddie Ng said schools can continue to use a $530,000 Moral & National Education Support Grant flexibly, to prepare, learn and teach school-based related education.

Speaking to the media, he said his bureau today had issued a circular memorandum to schools outlining an amendment to the policy on the Moral & National Education Subject and its details.

Under the amended policy, the arrangement requiring the full implementation of the moral and national education subject in the 2015/16 school year for primary schools and 2016/17 school year for secondary schools, at the end of their respective three-year initiation period, is abolished, he said.

“School sponsoring bodies and schools can, in accordance with their vision and mission, schools' readiness and professional judgment, exercise their discretion in deciding how to handle moral and national education-related matters, including whether to develop the subject, whether to implement the subject as an independent subject, and the implementation modes and schedule,” he said.

“School sponsoring bodies and schools may also, building upon what they have done so far, enhance their learning and teaching strategies and resources related to the subject such as values education, life education, knowing more about the country, civic education, sustainable development education, sex education, and so forth.”

The $530,000 Moral & National Education Support Grant, formerly known as the Moral & National Education Subject Support Grant, was disbursed to schools in August, to support schools' enhancement of the related education.

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Moral and National Education is getting much less play in the media now that the government has cleared the air as to what it's all about.

But... Well... the government already paid me my HK$6000 to mind my own business.

These grants seem similar.

What do you think?

Has Moral and National Education turned the corner from being "the most despised education policy suggestion ever" to becoming "a genuinely valued contribution to HK's education system"?

 

[GeoDerek]

[h=1]Education guidelines unneeded, advisors say[/h]
“Because of the change in government policy in not requiring the subject to be taught, the autonomy and decision making part has been fully delegated to the schools. We feel there is no need to have an official set of guidelines. Since we do not need an official set of guidelines, it is also our recommendation the Government need not proceed with the review of the subject.”




Can anybody translate this from rhetoric into actual-meaning or is it as straight-forward as it sounds?

news.gov.hk - Categories - At School, At Work - Education guidelines unneeded, advisors say

 

[testuser]

Schools can do what they want.

Government will not interfere ( hopefully ).

End of discussion.