Session 21 EDB - page 95 Examination of Estimates of Expenditure 2017-18
CONTROLLING OFFICER’S REPLY
(Question Serial No. 1700)
Head: (156) Government Secretariat: Education Bureau Subhead (No. & title): (-) Not specified
Programme: (2) Pre-primary Education, (3) Primary Education, (4) Secondary Education, (6) Other Educational Services and Subsidies
Controlling Officer: Permanent Secretary for Education (Mrs Marion LAI) Director of Bureau: Secretary for Education
Question:
Please advise this Committee of:
1. the respective numbers of ethnic minority students and non-Chinese speaking (NCS) students in kindergartens, primary schools and secondary schools in Hong Kong from this school year to the past 5 school years.
2. the educational support programmes and the amount of allocation for facilitating ethnic minority students and NCS students to learn Chinese language from this school year to the past 5 school years.
Asked by: Hon CHOW Ho-ding, Holden (Member Question No. 27) Reply:
1. According to the information collected through the annual Student Enrolment Survey, the number of ethnic minority students studying in kindergartens and the number of non-Chinese speaking (NCS) ethnic minority students studying in public sector and Direct Subsidy Scheme primary and secondary schools in the past 5 years (i.e. from the 2012/13 to 2016/17 school years) is tabulated at Annex A.
The number of NCS students studying in kindergartens, public sector and Direct Subsidy Scheme primary and secondary schools from the 2012/13 to 2016/17 school years is tabulated at Annex B. The two sets of data are not comparable since definition of NCS students is based on the language spoken at home instead of the ethnicity of the students.
2. The support measures for NCS students (notably ethnic minority students) from the 2012/13 to 2016/17 school years and the expenditure are tabulated at Annex C.
Reply Serial No.
Session 21 EDB - page 96 Annex A Number of ethnic minority students studying in kindergartens and
number of non-Chinese speaking ethnic minority students studying in primary and secondary schools
from the 2012/13 to 2016/17 school years
Level 2012/13
school year
2013/14 school year
2014/15 school year
2015/16 school year
2016/17 school year Pre-primary
(K1 to K3) 10 361 10 670 10 368 10 481 10 708
Primary
(Primary 1 – 6) 7 429 7 761 8 088 8 338 8 694
Secondary
(Secondary 1 – 6) 6 328 6 953 7 512 7 998 8 134
Notes:
1. Figures refer to the position as at September of the respective school years.
2. Figures for pre-primary level cover students studying in kindergarten-cum-child care centres.
3. Figures for pre-primary level cover ethnic minority students regardless of their spoken language.
4. Figures for primary and secondary levels cover students studying in public sector and Direct Subsidy Scheme schools. Figures do not include special schools.
5. For the planning of education support measures, students whose spoken language at home is not Chinese are broadly categorised as non-Chinese speaking students. Figures for primary and secondary schools have excluded those students whose ethnicity is not Chinese but with Chinese as the spoken language at home.
Session 21 EDB - page 97 Annex B Number of non-Chinese speaking students
from the 2012/13 to 2016/17 school years
Level 2012/13
school year
2013/14 school year
2014/15 school year
2015/16 school year
2016/17 school year Pre-primary
(K1 to K3) 12 324 12 029 11 933 11 982 12 240
Primary
(Primary 1 – 6) 7 945 8 290 8 697 8 958 9 266
Secondary
(Secondary 1 – 6) 6 919 7 576 8 224 8 782 8 971
Notes:
1. Figures refer to the position as at September of the respective school years.
2. The above data cover those students whose ethnicity is Chinese but who are non-Chinese speaking based on the spoken language at home.
3. Figures for pre-primary level cover students studying in kindergarten-cum-child care centres.
4. Figures for primary and secondary levels cover students studying in public sector and Direct Subsidy Scheme schools. Figures do not include special schools.
Session 21 EDB - page 98 Annex C Educational support measures for non-Chinese speaking (NCS) students
from the 2012/13 to 2016/17 school years
Support measures
Actual expenditure in the 2012/13
school year
$ million
Actual expenditure in the 2013/14
school year
$ million
Actual expenditure in the 2014/15
school year
$ million
Actual expenditure in the 2015/16
school year
$ million
Estimated expenditure in the 2016/17
school year
$ million Provision of additional recurrent
funding and professional support to schools with school-based support programme specifically arranged for NCS students to further help their NCS students in learning and integration
The arrangement has been revised with effect from the 2013/14 school year, under which all schools admitting 10 or more NCS students have been provided with additional recurrent funding to enhance the support for learning of Chinese language of NCS
students. School-based
professional support is provided in different modes.
Starting from the 2014/15 school year, enhanced funding support and enhanced school-based professional support have been provided to facilitate schools’
implementation of the “Chinese Language Curriculum Second Language Learning Framework”
(“Learning Framework”) and support of NCS students in learning Chinese language as well as creation of an inclusive
environment in schools. Eligible schools may also apply for funding to provide after-school support for NCS students’
learning of the Chinese language.
17.5 Note 1
61.3 Note 1
197.8 Note 1
224.0 Note 1
244.9 Note 1
Session 21 EDB - page 99 Support measures
Actual expenditure in the 2012/13
school year
$ million
Actual expenditure in the 2013/14
school year
$ million
Actual expenditure in the 2014/15
school year
$ million
Actual expenditure in the 2015/16
school year
$ million
Estimated expenditure in the 2016/17
school year
$ million Development of the
Supplementary Guide to the Chinese Language Curriculum for NCS Students
Development of the “Learning Framework” and the supporting learning and teaching materials for implementation starting from the 2014/15 school year
An additional sum of about
$2.8 million to continue with the
development of teaching reference materials and assessment tools
Note 1
An additional sum of about
$2.6 million to continue with the
development of teaching reference materials and assessment tools
Note 1
3.0
Note 1
3.0
Note 1
3.0
Note 1 Training programmes for Chinese
Language teachers teaching NCS students
The
programmes are subsumed under the overall professional development programme of EDB and a breakdown of expenditure by item is not available.
The
programmes are subsumed under the overall professional development programme of EDB and a breakdown of expenditure by item is not available.
The
programmes are subsumed under the overall professional development programme of EDB and a breakdown of expenditure by item is not available.
The
programmes are subsumed under the overall professional development programme of EDB and a breakdown of expenditure by item is not available.
The
programmes are subsumed under the overall professional development programme of EDB and a breakdown of expenditure by item is not available.
Chinese Language Learning Support Centres to offer remedial programmes after school hours and during holidays for those NCS students who have a late start in the learning of the Chinese Language, to develop teaching resources, and to organise
workshops for experience sharing with teachers and workshops for NCS parents with a view to strengthening collaboration with NCS parents in the support for NCS students’ learning of Chinese
2.7 2.6 3.8 3.7 3.9
Session 21 EDB - page 100 Support measures
Actual expenditure in the 2012/13
school year
$ million
Actual expenditure in the 2013/14
school year
$ million
Actual expenditure in the 2014/15
school year
$ million
Actual expenditure in the 2015/16
school year
$ million
Estimated expenditure in the 2016/17
school year
$ million A total funding of $77 million has
been earmarked for Project of After-school Extended Chinese Learning for NCS Students, that started in the 2010/11 school year under the Language Fund, to provide funding to schools other than those with school-based support programmes specifically arranged for NCS students to put in place diversified extended Chinese learning programmes.
Starting from the 2013/14 school year, all schools may apply.
Starting from the 2014/15 school year, the provision has been regularised and subsumed under the additional recurrent funding for schools admitting NCS students.
13.0 21.0 - - -
Summer Bridging Programme for NCS students in primary schools Starting from 2013, the
programme has been refined to allow NCS parents to accompany their children with a view to enhancing their exposure to, and use of, Chinese and support for their children.
2.0 2.5 2.8 2.6 2.6
Student grant for Applied Learning Chinese (for NCS students) starting from the 2014/15 school year
- - 2.3 4.4 6.8
Session 21 EDB - page 101 Support measures
Actual expenditure in the 2012/13
school year
$ million
Actual expenditure in the 2013/14
school year
$ million
Actual expenditure in the 2014/15
school year
$ million
Actual expenditure in the 2015/16
school year
$ million
Estimated expenditure in the 2016/17
school year
$ million Subsidising eligible school
candidates sitting for the General Certificate of Secondary
Education (GCSE) (Chinese) Examination since 2010 to the effect that the fee level of the examination payable by the subsidised school candidates is on par with the Chinese Language paper in the Hong Kong Certificate of Education Examination or Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education Starting from 2013, the
examination subsidy coverage has been expanded to include other non-local Chinese examinations such as the International General Certificate of Secondary
Education (IGCSE), the General Certificate of Education (GCE) Advanced Subsidiary (AS)-Level and the GCE Advanced (A)-Level.
0.76 1.33 1.87 2.09 2.58
District-based programmes in collaboration with
non-governmental organisations since the 2012/13 school year to motivate NCS children to learn Chinese through fun activities such as games and creative art, etc.
under the Language Fund
0.88 2.51 1.09 2.35 1.72
Support for kindergartens admitting NCS students - (a) University-School Support
Programmes financed by the Education Development Fund:
(i) a 3-year project to support kindergartens to enhance the learning and teaching of Chinese for NCS children from the 2012/13 to 2014/15 school years
3.3 3.0 3.0 - 0.7
(ii) a 2-year project to support NCS students in
kindergartens in the transition to primary schools from the 2015/16 to 2016/17 school years
- - - Note 2 Note 2
(b) School-based professional support services
- Note 1 Note 1 Note 1 Note 1
Session 21 EDB - page 102 Notes:
1. These measures are provided by different sections of EDB and deployment of staff may be adjusted having regard to the needs of individual schools. The relevant manpower resources and expenses are subsumed under the overall expenditure of EDB and/or different Funds including University-School Support Programme (USP) projects for primary and secondary schools funded under the Education Development Fund and a breakdown of expenditure by item is not available.
2. For the 2-year USP project from the 2015/16 to 2016/17 school years, the actual expenditure of the 2015/16 school year is $2.25 million and the estimated expenditure of the 2016/17 and 2017/18 school years is $5.85 million and $0.9 million respectively. As this USP project is provided for both kindergartens and primary schools, a breakdown of expenditure for kindergartens and primary schools is not available.
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Session 21 EDB - page 103 Examination of Estimates of Expenditure 2017-18
CONTROLLING OFFICER’S REPLY
(Question Serial No. 2293)
Head: (156) Government Secretariat: Education Bureau Subhead (No. & title): (-) Not specified
Programme: (7) Post-secondary, Vocational and Professional Education Controlling Officer: Permanent Secretary for Education (Mrs Marion LAI) Director of Bureau: Secretary for Education
Question:
Regarding the number of non-local students, would the Government please,
(1) tabulate the number of non-local students of full-time locally-accredited self-financing sub-degree programmes by year, level of study and place of origin in the past 5 academic years; and
(2) tabulate the number of non-local students of full-time locally-accredited self-financing degree programmes by year, level of study and place of origin in the past 5 academic years;
Asked by: Hon CHU Hoi-dick (Member Question No. 34) Reply:
Requested information regarding non-local students of full-time locally-accredited self-financing sub-degree and undergraduate programmes from the 2012/13 to 2016/17 academic years is set out at Annex A and B.