2 Hong Kong special schools told to boost national security education in curriculum
- Authorities singled out handful of institutions including Caritas Resurrection School in Sha Tin and Po Leung Kuk Law’s Foundation School in Yuen Long
- School administrators were ‘slow’ or failed to fully implement elements of national education into subjects taught in school, report says
Hong Kong authorities have urged two special schools for children with intellectual disabilities to step up their national education curriculum, singling out the institutions and others over failing to do enough on the subject.
The Education Bureau on Friday released a summary report of an external review of a first batch of 10 schools on its website, covering various education performance indicators and offering suggestions.
According to the report, Caritas Resurrection School in Sha Tin, which caters to children with moderate intellectual disability, failed to fully cover the country’s constitution and the city’s Basic Law mini-constitution in its general studies subject and was “slow” in adding national security education into all others.
“Currently, there are attempts to link up only some subjects with national security education content, and the progress is slow,” the report said.
“The leadership must lead in reviewing the subjects’ connection between the learning content and national security education, and fully implement national security education,” it added.
The report on Po Leung Kuk Law’s Foundation School, an institution in Yuen Long for severely intellectually disabled children, said the institution only had a small number of its subjects combined with learning elements of national security education.
