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Gary Cheung

Professors from Shanghai have been invited to act as advisers to a private independent school which has been allocated a site in Southern District.

The government-appointed School Allocation Committee yesterday recommended that the 11,900-square-metre site on Shum Wan Road be allocated to Shanghai Victoria Education Foundation Ltd, a school-sponsoring body, to run the school.

Maggie Koong May-kay, a board member of the school and chief principal of the Hong Kong Victoria Educational Organisation, said principals and professors from Shanghai had been invited to act as the school's advisers.

'Prominent institutions in Shanghai such as Jiaotong University and Datong Middle School are our partners,' she said. Ms Koong said the school would launch exchange programmes under which Shanghai teachers would be invited to teach some lessons to demonstrate their teaching skills to local teachers.

The school, the eighth to be allocated a site under the Private Independent Schools Scheme, is expected to open in September 2005.

Under the scheme, announced in 1999, such schools are given sites for a nominal sum and will receive capital grants for construction.

Unlike public-sector schools, they are not entitled to any recurrent government subsidy. They can select their own fee-paying students, but 70 per cent must be local.

Peggy Lam Pei Yu-dja, vice-chairwoman of the new school's board, said it would be a through-train institution under which primary pupils would be admitted to the secondary section without having to pass any examination.

Professor Woo Chia-wei, former president of the University of Science and Technology, has been invited to be a board member of the new school.

Ms Koong said tuition fees for a primary pupil would be less than $48,000 a year, while annual fees for a secondary student would range between $60,000 and $72,000.

Meanwhile, two sites in Tung Chung were yesterday allocated to Caritas Hong Kong and the Young Men's Christian Association of Hong Kong to run senior secondary schools.

The two schools, due to open in September next year, will offer courses in tourism, design and e-commerce for academic low-achievers who lose interest in traditional subjects.



Shanghai professors to advise private independent school