12 Dec 2025明報#7677
增收外地生直資校 准升國際課程佔比 最高達49%多間有意申 津校憂競爭加劇
This year’s Policy Address proposed a pilot scheme allowing Direct Subsidy Scheme (DSS) primary and secondary schools to apply from the 2026/27 school year to expand classes and relax class-size limits in order to admit more self-financed non-local students holding student visas. The Education Bureau wrote to all DSS schools yesterday to introduce the scheme, mentioning for the first time that DSS secondary schools could simultaneously apply to raise the proportion of students studying international curricula from the current general level of about one-third to as high as 49%, meaning at least 51% would study the local Diploma of Secondary Education (DSE) curriculum. At least four DSS schools told this newspaper they intended to apply. A DSS secondary-school principal said the scheme would help with student recruitment, while a principal of a prestigious aided school feared that competition for students would intensify. The secondary school principals’ association hopes the authorities will extend the scheme to government and aided schools.
今年《施政報告》提出試點計劃，准直資中小學申請下學年（2026/27）起擴班及放寬每班學生人數，以取錄更多持學生簽證的自資非本地生。教育局昨致函全港直資學校介紹計劃，首次提及容許直資中學同步申請提高國際課程學生佔比，由目前一般佔約三分之一，最高增至佔49%，即最少51%人修讀本地中學文憑試（DSE）課程。最少4間直資學校向本報稱有意申請，有直資中學校長認為有助收生，有津貼名校校長憂慮收生競爭加劇。中學校長會盼當局拓展計劃至官津校。
21 Nov 2025追光者#7567
諸聖中學容許學生自選簡體字答卷 團體憂動搖文化根基
After two government primary schools in Sha Tin and Hong Kong Island sparked controversy earlier by allowing students to use simplified Chinese in tests and examinations, Kowloon Sheng Kung Hui All Saints’ Middle School has also been accused of allowing students to answer in simplified Chinese in unified tests. It was further reported that the school had issued notices several years ago allowing students to choose between traditional and simplified Chinese, with some classes seeing “most students choosing simplified Chinese, with only three or four choosing traditional Chinese.”
The Cantonese preservation organisation Konghub received a reader tip-off yesterday (20th) alleging that the school had for years provided simplified-Chinese examination papers for students who were not proficient in traditional Chinese, including a simplified-Chinese mathematics unified test paper. The tipster said the arrangement “could undermine the teaching foundation built on the use of traditional Chinese in Hong Kong for many years” and expressed concern that it could affect the transmission of traditional Chinese, students’ cultural identity and their ability to adapt to the mainstream written language. Konghub questioned whether the Education Bureau was exercising inadequate supervision, warning that this could further narrow the scope for using traditional Chinese in Hong Kong.
繼沙田及港島兩間官立小學早前因容許學生在測考使用簡體字引起爭議後，九龍聖公會諸聖中學亦被指在統一測驗中容許學生選用簡體字作答。消息更指，校方在幾年前已經在測驗前發出通告，容許讓學生選擇以繁體或簡體作答，有個別班級更出現「大部分學生揀簡體、只有三四人選繁體」的情況。
粵語保育組織「Konghub」昨（20日）收到讀者報料，指諸聖中學多年來提供簡體字試卷，供不擅繁體字的學生選用，並附上一份以簡體字數學科統一測驗卷佐證。報料者認為有關安排「或動搖香港多年沿用繁體字的教學基礎」，並憂慮影響繁體字傳承，影響學生的文化認同及適應主流語文的能力。Konghub質疑教育局監管不力，恐令繁體字在港的使用空間進一步萎縮。
23 Sept 2025法庭線#7351
挑戰中學髮禁｜校董會一方擬呈中大教授報告證校服儀容有常規 官批准
Two secondary school graduates filed a claim in the District Court, saying they had gender dysphoria and special educational needs but that the schools had failed to address them. They said that, after they refused to cut their hair short, they were required either to be publicly singled out at school or to switch to online classes, causing them severe emotional distress. They asked the court to declare that the schools had breached the Sex Discrimination Ordinance and Disability Discrimination Ordinance, and sought compensation and an apology.
Both sides separately applied to submit expert reports. District Court Chief Judge Ko King-shiu handed down a judgment on Tuesday (23rd), approving the schools’ application to submit an expert report by a professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong to demonstrate that there are conventions in Hong Kong regarding school uniforms and grooming. The students questioned how the expert’s research methods could establish such conventions, and argued that, even if they existed, they involved gender stereotypes.
The judge held that the schools’ expert was professionally qualified to give evidence and that the research methods could be challenged at trial. The judge therefore approved the inclusion of the report at this stage.
兩名中學畢業生入稟區院，指自己有性別不安及特殊學習需要，但校方完全沒處理，更因他們拒絕剪短頭髮，被要求在校內示眾或改上網課，令他們承受沉重精神壓力，要求法庭宣告校方違反性別和殘疾歧視條例、作賠償及道歉。
雙方各自申請呈交專家報告。區院首席法官高勁修周二（23 日）頒判詞，批准校方的申請，讓其呈交中大教授的專家報告，以證明香港在校服和儀容上有常規；學生一方則質疑專家的研究方法如何證明常規，而就算有，亦涉性別刻板印象。
官認為，校方的專家有專業資格提供證據，而其研究方法可在審訊中挑戰，故現階段批准加入報告。
15 Sept 2025獨媒#7306
莊梅岩劇作教材去年於網頁「消失」 教育局：適時檢視並更新資料
The page Education Sting also found that teaching materials for renowned playwright Candace Chong’s classic play ‘Staying Behind in the Mortuary’ had already ‘disappeared’ from the Education Bureau’s website last year. In response to an inquiry from InMedia, the Education Bureau said it has continued to review online learning and teaching resources and update the relevant information or content as appropriate, while continuing to produce new learning and teaching resources to meet curriculum development and learning and teaching needs.
專頁《教育刺針》更發現，知名劇作家莊梅岩的經典劇作《留守太平間》的教材資料，早於去年已在教育局網頁「消失」。教育局回覆《獨媒》查詢時稱，一直適時檢視網上學與教資源，並更新資料或內容，同時持續製作新的學與教資源，以配合課程發展及學與教需要。
10 Sept 2025獨媒#7284
樂善堂轄屬中學校服惹爭議 舊生批校方「零回應」促撤回並啟動公投
Do students like their school uniforms? Have they ever imagined wearing uniforms they designed themselves? In 2019, Kowloon Lok Sin Tong held a “Uniform Design Competition for Affiliated Schools” to standardise the uniforms of its five primary and six secondary schools. The competition received more than 100 submissions. However, when Lok Sin Tong began standardising and replacing the secondary-school uniforms in 2021, it did not use the winning designs. The new uniforms were also criticised for having overly thin material and provoking ridicule.
Since the uniforms were changed, the social media page “lstss.secrect”, managed by former students and students of Lok Sin Tong-affiliated secondary schools, has continued to receive students’ views opposing and questioning the uniform design. In July this year, “lstss.secrect” issued an open letter and collected nearly 1,000 signatures, hoping that Lok Sin Tong would withdraw the new uniforms and initiate a “uniform referendum” to allow students to participate in the uniform decision-making process.
作為學生的你，喜歡自己的校服嗎？有沒有想像過可以穿上自己設計的校服？2019年，九龍樂善堂為統一轄下5間小學及6間中學的校服，舉辦「轄屬學校校服設計比賽」。比賽共收到過百份作品投稿，然而樂善堂在2021年起統一更換中學校服時，未按照得獎作品作設計，新校服更被指有質料透簿、惹來嘲笑等情況。
自換校服以來，由樂善堂轄屬中學舊生及學生管理的社交媒體專頁「lstss.secrect」一直收到學生意見，對校服設計表示反對及質疑。今年7月，「lstss.secrect」先後發出公開信和收集近千個聯署，盼樂善堂能撤回新校服，啟動「校服公投」，讓學生能夠參與校服決策程序。
3 Sept 2025星島#7245
學校安排外間活動須確保符合國安
The Education Bureau recently issued an updated version of the School Administration Guide. In addition to adding relevant information in preparation for the Mandatory Reporting of Child Abuse Ordinance taking effect early next year, it also added content on national security. This includes requiring schools, before arranging for students to participate in activities organised by outside organisations, to first assess the nature, background or format, and safety of the activities, as well as the identities and backgrounds of the relevant people or organisations, to “ensure that the activities will absolutely not involve anything that endangers national security, political propaganda, inappropriate values, or any sensitive and controversial issues.” A Legislative Council member said that strengthening the scrutiny of activity details was the schools’ responsibility, and that teachers should be able to exercise professional judgment.
教育局近日發布更新版的《學校行政手冊》，除了因應《強制舉報虐待兒童條例》將於明年初生效而加入相關資料外，亦加入有關國家安全的內容，包括要求學校在安排學生參與外間組織的活動前，須先審視活動性質、背景或形式、安全性、相關人士或單位的身份和背景等，「確保活動完全不會有涉及危害國家安全、不涉及政治宣傳、不恰當的價值觀，以及任何敏感和富爭議的議題。」有立法會議員認為，加強審視活動詳情是學校的責任，而教師應能作專業判斷。
15 Jul 2025光傳媒#7042
首套反恐漫畫派發中小學 細述激進化過程四步曲 辨別極端行為
The Education Bureau began distributing anti-terrorism comic books to more than 900 primary and secondary schools across Hong Kong today (15th). The Inter-departmental Counter Terrorism Task Force said it hoped that, through school-based stories combined with real-life situations, students would understand extremism and radicalisation, develop greater counter-terrorism awareness from an early age, and strengthen young people’s ability to protect themselves. The comic includes details illustrating “extremism”, such as the four-step radicalisation process: starting with not being accepted, allowing dissatisfaction with society to fester into “dehumanisation”, and eventually rationalising violence and carrying out terrorist acts.
The first anti-terrorism comic book and teaching kit, 《Community Shield: Youth Edition》, was compiled by the Inter-departmental Counter Terrorism Task Force together with the One Country Two Systems Research Institute, and is being distributed by the Education Bureau to primary and secondary schools.
The comic is divided into three units covering extremism, radicalisation and response methods. Its section on extremism explains why extremist messages become widespread. Users may come into contact with extremist messages online without realising it; attractive and persuasive slogans can lower the public’s psychological defences through subtle propaganda. Social media algorithms may also result in audiences repeatedly receiving similar “fake news”, gradually leading them to identify with extremism and develop more radical views.
教育局今（15日）起向全港逾900間中小學派發反恐漫畫書，跨部門反恐專責組指出，希望透過校園故事結合實際情況，讓學生了解甚麼是極端主義和激進化，從小建立提高反恐意識，加強青少年的防護能力。漫畫有不少描繪「極端主義」的細節，例如激進化過程四步曲，由不被認同、將對社會的不滿發酵至「去人性化」，以至將暴力合理化，作出恐怖行為等。
跨部門反恐專責組聯同一國兩制研究中心編撰的首套反恐漫畫書及教學套裝《社區守護盾：青少年篇》，由教育局分發到各中小學。
漫畫書分為三個單元，包括極端主義、激進化和應變方法。在極端主義方面，講述極端主義訊息盛行的原因，包括使用者可能在不知不覺間接觸到網上極端主義訊息，透過具吸引力、感染力的口號，令大眾在潛移默化的宣傳下，降低心理防禦；社交媒體演算法亦可能讓受眾不斷收到同類「假新聞」，令人漸漸認同極端主義並思想變得偏激。
28 Jun 2025獨媒#6960
中學生辯論比賽被荃新天地取消借場 急向中大借場獲批後再收回許可
The Zhishan Cup—Hong Kong-wide Cantonese Debate Competition for Secondary Students, now in its third edition, was scheduled to hold its grand final and prize presentation ceremony on Saturday (28th). However, Citywalk cancelled the venue booking several days ago, citing “emergency safety maintenance works”. The organising committee then contacted The Chinese University of Hong Kong as an alternative venue and initially obtained the university’s approval to use it. After the university sought further details about the competition, it withdrew the approval, and the grand final will have to be postponed.
已舉行三屆的「至善盃——全港中學生粵語辯論比賽」原定周六（28日）舉行總決賽暨頒獎典禮，但在數日前被荃新天地以「緊急安全維修工程」為由，取消借場。比賽籌委會稱，隨即聯絡中文大學作備選場地，原獲得校方借出場地的許可，然而大學在查詢更多比賽的詳情後，收回場地借出許可，總決賽需延期舉行。
17 Jun 2025獨媒#6921
蔡若蓮指校園「軟對抗」手法抬頭 將加強審查教材、校外合作機構
On the fifth anniversary of the promulgation and implementation of the Hong Kong National Security Law, a number of principal officials have been giving newspaper interviews in turn. Secretary for Education Christine Choi Yu-lin said that “soft confrontation” tactics were emerging in schools, such as embedding messages opposing China and destabilising Hong Kong in teaching materials or books, or concealing political propaganda in ordinary activities. She said the Education Bureau had introduced a number of measures, including tighter vetting of teaching materials, external partner organisations and the backgrounds of people involved, to prevent “anti-China and destabilise Hong Kong” activities.
In an interview with Wen Wei Po, Choi said that after the current-term government took office, it introduced various measures to further strengthen national education and national security education in schools. These included requiring every school to appoint a designated coordinator and setting key performance indicators (KPIs) for areas including curriculum design and teacher training. She said all the indicators had met their targets.
《香港國安法》在港頒布實施5周年，一眾司局長輪流接受報章訪問。教育局局長蔡若蓮表示，校園「軟對抗」的手法抬頭，例如在教材或書籍中滲透反中亂港訊息，或通過普通活動隱藏政治宣傳等，指局方已推行多項措施包括加強審查教材、校外合作機構及其參與人士背景，以杜絕「反中亂港」行為。
蔡若蓮接受《文匯報》訪問，稱現屆政府上任後推出多項措施，以進一步加強學校內的國民教育及國家安全教育，包括要求每間學校指派專責統籌人員，並在課程設計及教師培訓等方面制定關鍵績效指標（KPI），而所有指標都已達標。
19 May 2025Yahoo#6802
禁學生講廣東話？ 德萃小學課堂英普溝通 校方：講廣東話不會受罰 課後活動不設限
The government has promoted Putonghua-medium teaching for years, while many private schools have attracted students by offering teaching in English and Putonghua. Tsz Wing Chu, head of the kindergarten and primary divisions of St. Hilary School, recently discussed the primary school’s curriculum design in an interview with a Douyin self-media outlet. During the interview, Tsz Wing Chu mentioned that the school had “a very interesting policy”: students were “not allowed to speak Cantonese” with one another and could communicate only in English and Putonghua. The remarks were reposted on other social media platforms and sparked heated discussion. A Yahoo News reporter contacted Tsz Wing Chu and the school for an inquiry but received no response. The reporter also contacted the school’s admissions office posing as a parent, and was told that most of the school’s teachers had Putonghua or English as their mother tongue. The school stressed that students would not be punished for speaking Cantonese.
政府力推「普教中」多年，不少私校均以英普教學作招徠。德萃學校幼稚園部及小學部總校長朱子穎早前接受抖音自媒體訪問時大談小學部的課程設計，期間提到該校「有個好得意嘅政策」，學生之間「唔准講廣東話」，只能以英語和普通話溝通，此番言論被轉載至其他社交媒體後引發熱議。《Yahoo新聞》記者則向朱子穎及校方查詢，未有回覆；記者另以家長身份向校方招生辦公室查詢，對方解釋稱因該校大部份老師的母語為普通話及英語，強調學生用廣東話不會受罰。
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