Introduce a voucher system to settle the ESF funding debate

The Hong Kong government's education funding policy is in a mess. It's time to tear it up and start again.

Yesterday Secretary of Education Eddie Ng Hak-kim wrote to the South China Morning Post to set out his position on government subsidies to the English Schools Foundation. In a nutshell, he argued that: "ESF schools offer a non-local curriculum. It is not our established policy to provide recurrent subvention to schools offering a non-local curriculum." Therefore "the existing recurrent subvention will be phased out".

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