Hong Kong Baptist University President Wei Bingjiang and his management team revealed at a meeting with the media today (26th) that undergraduates enrolled in the 2021 school year, the new school year, must complete the required national security education courses before graduation.
When Yang Runxiong attended the event in the afternoon, he responded that he supported HKBU to include national security education as a compulsory subject.
Regarding the emergence of dropouts in public primary and secondary schools, there is a risk of killing schools. Yang Runxiong said that he would discuss changes in the number of students with the academic community.
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Since 2019, there have been successive conflicts in society, many families have emigrated, and public primary and secondary schools have also dropped out.
Comparing the same school year, there were about 47,000 surplus places in primary and secondary schools in October last year. However, in June this year, it rose sharply to more than 55,000, an increase of nearly 17%, that is, nearly 8,000 people dropped out.
Yang Runxiong pointed out that Hong Kong is a free society. It is their free choice for residents to leave Hong Kong to go to other places. The authorities will collect data for the new school year in September this year and discuss changes in the number of students with the academic community in order to deal with different issues arising from this.
Yang Runxiong said that under Article 10 of the "Hong Kong National Security Law", colleges and universities have the responsibility to promote national security education to students within school education.
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Institutions have the responsibility to promote national security education
Regarding HKBU’s inclusion of national security education as a compulsory subject, Yang Runxiong said that under Article 10 of the "Hong Kong National Security Law", colleges and universities have the responsibility to promote national security education to students in school education.
He said that he believed that different tertiary institutions would have different approaches to fulfill the school's responsibilities and expressed support for the HKBU's approach.
Starting from the new school year, HKBU requires undergraduate freshmen to take compulsory national security education, excluding credits, but it is a national security education requirement for graduation. Only more than half of the schools said they were ready to push the courses, and more than 80% of the schools said they had difficulties in implementation. Civic Education and National Security Education｜The Bureau of Education recommends that the Chinese History Science and Technology Institute organize an anti-Japanese song appreciation meeting to understand the situation of resistance to foreign aggression.
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