Funding for Information Technology (IT) co-ordinators in schools is to be scrapped from the coming academic year, education chief Arthur Li Kwok-cheung told the Legislative Council this week.
More than 1,100 IT co-ordinators have been employed in the past two academic years after the Education and Manpower Bureau (EMB) made the grants available to schools for the 2002-03 and 2003-04 school years.
Educators say they are worried some might lose their jobs.
Professor Li said the EMB was considering a combination of various IT-related grants instead of one specifically to hire staff.
This would provide schools with greater flexibility in resources utilisation.
The EMB was drafting a new IT education strategy plan for the next academic year, Professor Li added.
