PLANS unveiled by the Government yesterday to control distance learning courses will do little to protect students from unscrupulous operators, education experts warned last night.
A government spokesman said it had been decided in principle to draft new laws to regulate overseas colleges offering courses to people in Hong Kong.
One of the aims was to make sure the course was recognised by the overseas institution it purported to be run by and met that country's standards.
But Mervyn Cheung Man-ping, secretary of the Hong Kong Association for Continuing Education, said the plans fell far short of what was needed. Distance learning courses should be run to Hong Kong standards and the overseas institutions should be forced to have representative offices in the territory.
