Leading Hong Kong educational body to hold its first session for subsidised schools to showcase themselves in mainland China

Schools to take part in promotional session in Shenzhen later next week, leading sector body says

Facing shrinking pupil population at home, schools hope to convince pupils with Hong Kong permanent residency to study in city

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Hong Kong subsidised schools are to showcase themselves across the border. Photo: Jelly Tse

Published: 9:00am, 30 Aug 2023Updated: 9:13am, 30 Aug 2023

A leading educational body in Hong Kong will hold its first session for subsidised schools to showcase themselves over the border in a bid to convince parents to send their children to the city to study and help replenish the dwindling local pool of pupils.

Several institutions will take part in the session expected to be held in Shenzhen on September 8, the Hong Kong Subsidised Secondary Schools Council told the Post on Tuesday.

Five of them would each deliver 15-minute presentations in Mandarin to parents and pupils and 10 would distribute informational brochures at the venue, council chairwoman Lee Yi-ying said.

“The quota was filled by schools in a very short time,” she said. “I hope we can do everything we can to ensure schools have a sufficient number of pupils.”

Cross-border pupils at Sheung Shui MTR station. Photo: K.Y. Cheng

The session, the first to be held the council over the border, would explain the application procedure and how subsidised secondary schools operated in the city, she added. The schools hoped to attract children who were permanent residents of Hong Kong but living and studying over the border.