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Written by: Deng Yinglin
2021-04-28 13:30
Last update date: 2021-04-28 13:30
A new audit report was released today (28th), including a review of the educational support measures provided by the Hong Kong government to non-Chinese speaking students.
The expenditure on educational support measures provided by the Education Bureau for non-Chinese speaking students has increased by nearly 90% compared with five years ago, reaching RMB 456.3 million. However, many subsidized schools are late in submitting plans or reports, and the visits to schools under the supervision of the Education Bureau are not enough Timely.
From the 2014/15 school year to the 2019/10 school year, 26 special schools applied for a subsidy of RMB 650,000 to RMB 1.5 million for non-Chinese speaking students, but the Education Bureau never visited to inspect the implementation.
In terms of schools, the Audit Office stated that 72% of Chinese teachers have never participated in relevant education bureau training in the past 6 years, and the proportion of non-Chinese students participating in summer bridging courses has continued to decline, from 31% in 2013 to 17% in 2019.
Even for the Chinese tutoring classes commissioned by the Education Bureau to run colleges and universities, more than half of the participating students reported that the learning materials were inconsistent, and the average attendance rate per academic year was less than 60%.
The proportion of non-Chinese speaking students in the total number of students in Hong Kong increased from 3% in the 2015/16 school year to 3.4% in the 2019/20 school year.
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The proportion of non-Chinese speaking students slightly increased to 3.4%, and funding nearly doubled to 450 million yuan
According to the audit report, the proportion of non-Chinese speaking students in the total number of students in Hong Kong increased from 3% in the 2015/16 school year to 3.4% in the 2019/20 school year.
Among them, Pakistanis the most (31%), followed by Nepalese (16%), Filipino (14%) and Indian (13%).
The education support measures provided by the Education Bureau for non-Chinese speaking students also increased by nearly 90% to 456.3 million yuan from 244.5 million five years ago.
The Audit Commission pointed out that as of the end of the 2019/20 school year, nearly 10% (26) of the schools had never visited schools on behalf of the Education Bureau to inspect the use of subsidies for non-Chinese speaking students. The schools concerned were all special schools.
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The Education Bureau has not visited special schools in the next 5 years. Schools have submitted late reports.
Allocations have increased significantly, but the use of schools may not be satisfactory.
The audit report found that among the 152 kindergartens receiving subsidy for non-Chinese speaking students, nearly 40% (60) were late in submitting school plans and 48% (73) were late in submitting school reports. As for 266 aided primary and secondary schools and special schools, there were also More than 60% are late in submitting plans (168 schools) or reports (176 schools).
The Audit Commission pointed out that as of the end of the 2019/20 school year, nearly 10% (26) of the schools had never visited schools on behalf of the Education Bureau to inspect the use of subsidies for non-Chinese speaking students. The schools concerned were all special schools.
72% of Chinese teachers have not participated in relevant education bureau training for 6 academic years
In terms of teacher training, the Audit Commission criticized the Education Bureau for not setting training requirements for teaching Chinese as a second language to non-Chinese speaking students. Among the 13,794 Chinese language teachers in Hong Kong, 72% did not attend the Education Bureau during the 2014/15 to 2019/20 school year. Related training, about 13% of the training hours are not more than 5 hours.
The Audit Commission criticized the Education Bureau for not setting training requirements for teaching Chinese as a second language to non-Chinese speaking students.
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Among the 988 primary and secondary schools and special schools in Hong Kong, 252 (26%) Chinese teachers did not participate in the Education Bureau training, but 157 (62%) of them had non-Chinese speaking students, and 4 of them had 10 or more students Non-Chinese speaking students.
As for the “Teaching Chinese as a Second Language” Professional Education Grant Scheme launched by the Education Bureau on a trial basis in the 2014/15 school year, the attractiveness was low. It was extended twice to the end of the school year. Only 99 applications were received, accounting for approximately Twenty percent.
The Audit Commission considers that the Education Bureau must consider whether it is necessary to set appropriate training requirements and review the direction of the further education subsidy scheme.
The Education Bureau has commissioned tertiary institutions to provide Chinese language tutoring classes for non-Chinese speaking students, but the number of schools and students recommended to participate has also fallen.
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More than half of the students entrusted by the Education Bureau to run remedial classes for colleges and universities said the learning materials did not match
The Education Bureau has commissioned tertiary institutions to provide Chinese language tutoring classes for non-Chinese speaking students. However, the number of schools and students that recommended students to participate has also dropped, from 128 schools in the 2015/16 school year with a total of 974 students to the 2019/20 school year. 80 schools with a total of 757 people.
The average attendance rate of the study group in each academic year is only 60% or less, and more than half of the students report that the difficulty of the group study materials does not match the level.
The Audit Office recommends that remedial classes should be allocated according to students' Chinese ability and learning needs.
The Secretary for Education agreed to the audit recommendations.
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