Older Hong Kong students to learn about national security when studying range of subjects, including accounting, chemistry and even physics
- Education Bureau issues new guidelines for schools on how lessons in eight subjects can include principles of national security
- Major church group also reveals plans for textbooks on the topic that include descriptions of 2019 protests as involving terrorism risks
Under the new syllabus framework released by the Education Bureau on Thursday, the basic concepts and importance of national security will be infused into eight subjects for older teens, including business and accounting, physics, chemistry and information technology.
Arranging field trips to a nuclear power plant in mainland China was one suggested way to teach the principles.
We have no plans to brainwash our students
The guidelines came as a major church group revealed plans to publish its own textbooks on national education and security for secondary schools, with terms such as “rioters” and “terrorism risks” used in descriptions of the 2019 social unrest, according to drafts seen by the Post.
Following the months of often-violent demonstrations, Beijing imposed a national security law on Hong Kong last June targeting acts of secession, subversion, terrorism and collusion with foreign forces with a maximum punishment of life in prison.
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Campuses, which were often linked to the protest movement, also came into the cross hairs. Education officials issued sweeping guidelines in February detailing how school administrators should ensure students followed the new law, with the rules targeting pupils as young as six.