[lg policy] Hong Kong: Secondary School Profiles 2009-2010 to be released on Monday

[Harold Schiffman]

  Secondary School Profiles 2009-2010 to be released on Monday


Hong Kong (HKSAR) - The following is issued on behalf of the Committee
on Home-School Co-operation: The Committee on Home-School Co-operation
(CHSC) today (December 11) announced that the printed version of the
Secondary School Profiles 2009-2010 in Chinese will be delivered to
primary schools for distribution to parents with children at P6 level
in the current school year starting Monday (December 14).The e-version
of the profiles (in Chinese and English) will also be uploaded onto
the webpage of the CHSC on Monday. The Secondary School Profiles
2009-2010 contain information provided by individual schools showing
the position as at September 2009.The profiles cover basic information
of more than 400 secondary schools, such as teaching staff
information, school curriculum, class structure, school facilities,
extra-curricular activities, school life and school characteristics;
as well as the schools' teaching strategies including whole-school
language policy. The profiles aim to provide comprehensive secondary
school information for parents' reference.Professor Wong Po-choi,
Chairman of the CHSC, wrote an article entitled "Letters to parents -
New Thoughts on Selection of Schools" for the profiles to share
relevant experience.

The e-version of the profiles enables schools to update their
information on the web direct, whenever necessary, and parents can
obtain the most up-to-date school information. According to
statistics, the number of browsers was around 6.1 million, while the
number of pages viewed was more than 54.5 million per year.This
reflects the popularity of the e-version. The public can access the
e-version of the profiles on (http://www.chsc.hk/secondary) starting
on Monday.Copies of the printed version will be available for public
reference at District Offices, public libraries, Regional Education
Offices and the Central Resources Centre of Education Bureau (EDB).

For enquiries about the Profiles, please call EDB's Regional Education
Offices (Hong Kong: 2863 4646; Kowloon: 3698 4108; New Territories
East: 2639 4876; and New Territories West: 2437 7272), or the CHSC
Secretariat (3698 4379 or 3698 4376).

Source: HKSAR Government

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