What did the government do to promote national education?
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Background: It is the HKSAR Government’s established policy to promote national education. The government has adopted a three-pronged approach in this regard.
Action1: The government has been helping students better understand the history and development of our country through curriculum planning. The EDB has organised lectures and training programmes for teachers and students, and produced web-based teaching materials on the opportunities and challenges in our country’s development. Topics included the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, the staging of the Olympic Equestrian Events in Hong Kong, China’s first spacewalk by astronauts in its space mission of Shenzhou-7, the 30th anniversary of China’s opening up and reform, and disaster relief and reconstruction efforts for the Sichuan earthquake
Action 2: The government has been providing students with opportunities to join study and exchange programmes to heighten their sense of national identity, and enhance professional training and exchange programmes for teachers. In this way, both teachers and students will see for themselves the rapid development of our country. The EDB has subsidised students to participate in such trips and programmes each year, including junior secondary and upper primary students. To promote national education in a more strategic and systematic manner, the EDB has created a national education platform known as “Passing on the Torch” by co-ordinating the work of various voluntary groups. The government has also allocated additional resources to launch a National Education Funding Scheme for Young People to subsidise and support large-scale national education activities targeting mainly youngsters. This is to give young people a chance to see for themselves the development of our country and to grow to love our motherland and Hong Kong.
Action 3: Other than providing a subsidy for students to join at least one Mainland exchange programme each in the primary and secondary stages, the government has also launched a pilot scheme to provide financial and professional support for local public sector schools and Direct Subsidy Scheme schools in a bid to progressively double the number of primary and secondary sister schools in Hong Kong and the Mainland to about 600 pairs within the three years from the 2015/16 school year. This will help further promote experience sharing between sister schools, enhance teaching and learning effectiveness, and relieve teachers from some of the administrative work. At the same time, the EDB explores with Mainland provinces and cities to expand and enhance such exchange and co-operation. Young people can broaden their horizons through two-way visits, life experience activities, cultural and service collaboration as well as job-seeking experience sharing.
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