Secretary for Education Eddie Ng said today that it is the Government’s policy to ensure all students have a place to study and there are measures in place to increase school places in the short-term.
Speaking to reporters after an educational policy conference at Chinese University, Mr Ng said that the Government recognised there might be “ups and downs of the population of a relevant age group of students” but stressed there are temporary measures to address that on a short-term basis.
He cited examples of those measures, which include providing time-limited school premises to supply six to nine years of extra places, expanding the number of classes of a particular school which might have unused classrooms, and assigning more students to different schools to temporarily increase the number of class places.