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	Education and Manpower Bureau - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Education and Manpower Bureau (Traditional Chinese: 教育統籌局; pinyin: Xiānggǎng Jiàoyùtǒngchóujú; Jyutping: hoeng1 gong2 gaau3 juk6 tung2 cau4 guk6; abbr.
		The EMB is headed by the Secretary for Education and Manpower and Permanent Secretary for Education and Manpower, who are currently Prof Arthur Li and Raymond Wong respectively.
		The Education Department, which was responsible for implementation of education policies, reported to the EMB before it was merged with the EMB in 2003.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Education_and_Manpower_Bureau (224 words)

	education.scmp.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Education and Manpower Bureau is not doing enough to help ethnic minority and returnee students prepare for when Chinese becomes compulsory under the new senior secondary curriculum, a prominent principal said this week.
		Education groups have accused Permanent Secretary for Education and Manpower Raymond Wong Hung-chiu of being "too low key" and have raised concerns about his lack of understanding of education issues.
		The Education and Manpower Bureau said it had nothing more to say on the kindergarten vouchers issue this week, after a story was published that turned the education secretary's controversial "crate of apples" parable on its head.
	education.scmp.com (644 words)

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		Education systems of other developed countries showed that self-evaluation can effectively support continuous school development and ensure public accountability for the quality of education delivered.
		Moreover, as education change is dynamic and complicated, a school has to understand the needs and characteristics of its students, evaluate its own strengths and weaknesses, set priorities and goals, devise strategies to achieve its goals, and develop an action plan to build the capacity for educational change and bring about the intended outcomes.
		These key performance measures are similar with education quality indicator that is the indicator used to describe the key aspects of education quality in input, process, and outcome at the school level or at the system level.
	www.angelfire.com /un/pkchoi/sse.html (2577 words)

	HONG KONG'S DILEMMA: SCHOOLS VS. SOCIAL SERVICES
		Education, as well as other social issues such as welfare, housing, and the elderly, will put pressure on Tung from all ends of the political spectrum to spend more of Hong Kong's $63 billion in foreign reserves.
		As important as it is, education is just one of the several major priorities that will compete for the new government's resources.
		The chief secretary of the Hong Kong People's Council on Public Housing, she says the government is in league with property developers.
	www.businessweek.com /bwdaily/dnflash/june/nf70613c.htm (975 words)

	Government Policies of the Hong Kong Education System (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Secretary for Education and Manpower, who heads the Education and Manpower Branch of the Government Secretariat, formulates and reviews education policy, secures funds in the government budget, liaises with the Legislative Council on educational issues, and oversees the effective implementation of educational programs.
		The Director of Education, who heads the Education Department, implements educational policies at kindergarten, primary (elementary) and secondary (high) levels, manages all government schools and the Curriculum Development Institute.
		The main responsibilities of the Education Department include the provision and allocation of public sector school places to students entering the primary, junior secondary, senior secondary and sixth form levels; developing school curricula; monitoring teaching standards; and administering the public funding to schools.
	www.scils.rutgers.edu /~lfung/gp.html (133 words)

	China - Values Education for Children and Young Adults - Living Values: An Educational Program
		Joseph Wong, Secretary for Education and Manpower, and Mrs.
		Held at the Institute of Education, the Conference theme was "Exploring New Frontiers in Education" and it attracted an audience that included policy-makers and researchers from the local and mainland Chinese education community.
		In December 1998, a whole-day educators' training workshop was conducted by Diane Tillman, LVE's International Coordinator for Content and Training, with two participants from the Curriculum Development Institute, two from the Hong Kong Institute of Education and a number of school teachers/principals.
	www.livingvalues.net /homepages/china.html (2617 words)

	Education Hub - SkyscraperCity
		Secretary for Education and Manpower Arthur Li Kwok-cheung made the announcement Wednesday as lawmakers passed a motion raised by Jasper Tsang Yok-sing in support of the move.
		Education lawmaker Cheung Man-kwong agreed with the motion but said local universities were already accepting too many mainland students (who make up 94 percent of non-local students) while only 4 percent came from other Asian countries and less than 2 percent came from Western countries.
		Education lawmaker and Democratic Party member Cheung Man-kwong said universities were already accepting too many mainland students (who make up 94 percent of non-local students) while only 4 percent came from other Asian countries and fewer than 2 percent from Western countries.
	skyscrapercity.com /showthread.php?t=364991 (4368 words)

	Voucher subsidy scheme extended (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Secretary for Education and Manpower Arthur Li yesterday announced the extension of education voucher scheme to parents whose children have registered for profit-making kindergartens for the year 2006-07 and 2007-08.
		The amendments was announced by Li after lobby groups had demanded over the past months that the voucher scheme should cover all students irrespective of which kindergartens they were studying in.
		Private Independent Early Education Association convenor Thomas Ho said it was appropriate for the government to amend the scheme.
	www.chinadaily.com.cn.cob-web.org:8888 /china/2006-11/15/content_733573.htm (578 words)

	The Standard - China's Business Newspaper
		The education chief also claimed that four out of five private kindergartens are poor in quality and are not up to academic standard, adding they also have low transparency in their operations while their teachers are insufficiently qualified.
		Ada Mak Tse How-ling, chairwoman of the Hong Kong Institute of Education's Past Students' Association, dismissed Li's allegations, saying the quality of private kindergartens is constantly being monitored by the Education and Manpower Bureau.
		Education and Manpower Bureau Principal Assistant Secretary Andrew Poon Chung-shing said, in the long run, the government hoped private kindergartens could switch to being non- profitmaking institutions.
	www.thestandard.com.hk /news_detail.asp?pp_cat=11&art_id=29517&sid=10392379&con_type=1 (486 words)

	Putonghua More Widely Used in Hong Kong
		Fanny Law, Hong Kong secretary for education and manpower, told the council that the government is contemplating promoting a workplace Putonghua campaign to offer tax-free incentives to those who pay from their own pockets to undergo training in the language.
		The government is also considering making Putonghua a compulsory subject in senior forms in secondary schools, she said, noting that the Education Department is set to invite experts and Putonghua teachers from the State Language and Literary Work Committee next year to give a series of seminars on how Putonghua can be promoted.
		Meanwhile, the University of Hong Kong's School of Professional and Continuing Education is considering re-starting courses teaching Putonghua using English as the medium of instruction.
	clta-gny.org /news-interest-6.htm (353 words)

	Angelqueen.org :: View topic - Church loses school fight with Honk Kong Communist govt.
		The dispute arose because of an amendment to the Education Ordinance in July 2004 which enforced the policy of "school-based management," aimed at increasing transparency and accountability in the running of schools.
		Secretary for Education and Manpower Arthur Li Kwok-cheung Thursday welcomed the judgment as proof his department has always operated in accordance with the law.
		Responding to the judgment, the Catholic Education Office said in a statement that the amended Education Ordinance will unavoidably introduce political lobbying to, and cause tension, in the policymaking body of each school, rupturing the harmonious consultative and consensus-building mode of school management.
	angelqueen.org /forum/viewtopic.php?p=130403 (962 words)

	Summary Report of the APEC LMI Group Meeting, Hong Kong China, May 1999 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Anthony M. Reynalds, Principal Assistant Secretary of Education and Manpower Bureau, Hong Kong, China.
		In his speech, the Secretary stressed the importance of HRD in promoting the well-being of all the peoples in the region through economic growth and development.
		APEC Education Ministerial Meeting would be held April 6-8, 2000 in Singapore.
	apeclmi.anu.edu.au /apeclmi/html/hrd20.html (4199 words)

	NCLB underfunded? [Michigan Education Report]
		U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings, shown here with President Bush and her husband, Robert Spellings, was sworn into office on January 31, 2005.
		Other supporters of NCLB argue that federal funding for education is at an all time high and point to the 40 percent increase in education funding during the Bush administration.
		The nonprofit Education Leaders Council, which includes elected state education officials and supports standards-based education reform, conducted a cost analysis last year for collection, disaggregation, reporting of student achievement data, and implementing choice transportation and supplemental services.
	www.educationreport.org /pubs/mer/article.asp?ID=7021 (1874 words)

	http://homepage.mac.com/moogoonghwa/earth/current/hklna/ff/quality/critique.html
		In December of last year I presented a second paper on the barriers to communication that arise when people are compelled to learn a language for which they have little need or inclination.
		This paper was presented at the Hong Kong Institute of Education with an invitation from the ILEC 2001 organizing committee.
		I myself was allowed to elaborate on the problem of student and teacher motivation as it relates to the region's changing political landscape.
	homepage.mac.com /moogoonghwa/special/correspondence/emb/030214.html (764 words)

	Al Yamamah College
		(MENAFN) - In Hong Kong, private kindergartens have lashed out at Secretary for Education and Manpower for saying that many of them are below average, and warned they could be driven out of business unless they are sponsored by the government, The Winnie Chong reported.
		The education chief also said that four out of five private kindergartens are poor in quality and are not up to academic standard, adding they also have low transparency in their operations while their teachers are insufficiently qualified.
		Education and Manpower Bureau Principal Assistant Secretary said that in the long run, the government hoped private kindergartens could switch to being non- profitmaking institutions and whether the private kindergartens are willing to use their 10 percent profits to invest in improving the quality of education.
	www.alyamamah.edu.sa /newsdetail.php?nid=9572 (138 words)

	CNN.com - Wages frozen for HK maids - February 1, 2002
		Hong Kong's secretary for education and manpower Fanny Law announced the decision on Thursday, saying it would continue to monitor the economic situation in respect to wages.
		Philip Chok of the Education and Manpower Bureau told CNN that the government "recognized the contribution that they [domestic helpers] have made, they have enabled a lot of our female population to work and to earn an income in Hong Kong."
		The Hong Kong Employers of Overseas Domestic Helpers Association say they plan to meet the Education and Manpower department on February 8 and continue to lobby for a wage cut for domestic helpers.
	edition.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/asiapcf/east/02/01/hongkong.maids (519 words)

	Secretary for Education and Manpower - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Secretary for Education and Manpower (Traditional Chinese: 教育統籌局局長) is a ministerial position in the Hong Kong Government, and heads the Education and Manpower Bureau (EMB).
		The secretary is also a member of the Executive Council (ExCo).
		Following the introduction of POAS the responsibility of labour issues was transferred to the Secretary for Economic Development and Labour, formerly Secretary for Economic Services.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Secretary_for_Education_and_Manpower (185 words)

	Hong Kong: Citigroup Launches Financial Education Series
		Currently, 12 financial education programs are offered by Citigroup in Hong Kong, varying from competitions aiming at educating high school students about the stock market, University banking courses, to educational comics instructing young children on responsible financial management.
		Targeting audiences of different age groups and education levels, and involving active participation of volunteers among Citigroup’s financial experts, all these programs have had widespread support from professional and educational institutions as well as from the government, business and community leaders.
		T.C. Chan concluded, “Financial education is vital to the constant upgrading of the community in which we live and work.
	www.citigroup.com /citigroup/press/2005/051108a.htm (735 words)

	FT.com / World - Tsang stays ahead of pack in HK race to replace Tung (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Donald Tsang, the chief secretary for administration and the territory's second highest-ranking official, is the name on the tips of many tongues.
		Mr Tsang is best remembered, however, for his tenure as Hong Kong's financial secretary from 1995, which included the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis.
		In 2001, Mr Tsang became chief secretary for administration, vowing to ensure the stability of the civil service.
	www.ft.com /cms/s/de118ebc-8ab9-11d9-9059-00000e2511c8.html (738 words)

	Asiaweek.com
		Business still gets done, but clients have a slightly harder time reaching the right people, managers have to watch over their staff a little more closely and everything is subject to a bit more friction - until someone decides that enough is enough and cancels an order or relocates an office.
		Education authorities are well aware of this and are starting to emphasize practical usage over grammar and memorization.
		Nonetheless, English is the language that offers the single biggest market, the largest pool of talent, the most educational and research capabilities, and the greatest probability of being able to communicate with anybody else on the planet.
	www.asiaweek.com /asiaweek/99/0730/cs1.html (2257 words)

	Hong Kong Government
		As Chief Secretary she was leader of the administration is principally responsible to the Chief Executive for the formulation of government policies and their implementation.
		As the head of the Public Service, the Chief Secretary for Administration is one of the Chief Executive's principal advisers, along with the Financial Secretary and the Secretary for Justice.
		The Chief Secretary for Administration exercises direction primarily as head of the Government Secretariat, the central organization comprising the secretaries of the policy bureaux and resource bureaux and their staff.
	www.guide2womenleaders.com /Hong_Kong.htm (503 words)

	education.scmp.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Mervyn Cheung Man-ping, Education Policy Concern Group chairman, said Mr Wong should be more proactive with education organisations, particularly those that were more critical of government policy.
		Hong Kong Federation of Education Workers chairman Wong Kwan-yu said he had spoken with Mr Wong but felt he was not familiar with education, but added that could be an advantage.
		An Education and Manpower Bureau spokesman said Mr Wong had been meeting "various education and manpower related advisory committees, school councils and education bodies".
	education.scmp.com /ZZZD558YPVE.html (420 words)

	Global University Alliance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Continuing GW's commitment to international distance education, the University is one of ten founding members of the Global University Alliance (GUA), an international group offering internet-based fully accredited university-level education to students worldwide.
		Officials from the ten member institutions and other notables, such as Hong Kong's Secretary for Education and Manpower, gathered to mark the occasion.
		GW's initial offering is the M.A. in Education and Human Development with a concentration in Educational Technology Leadership, a distance learning program which has been highly successful since its inception in 1989.
	www.gwu.edu /~connect/globalu.html (199 words)

	Hong Kong Government Information
		Three other senior civil service positions--the Chief Secretary, Financial Secretary, and Justice Secretary--also were converted to political appointments, although without a change in personnel.
		Secretary for Education and Manpower--Arthur Li Secretary for Health, Welfare and Food--Dr. York Chow
		Secretary for Home Affairs--Patrick Ho Secretary for Economic Development and Labor--Stephen Ip Secretary for the Environment, Transport and Works--Sarah Liao
	www.traveldocs.com /hk/govern.htm (706 words)

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		Hong Kong's Education Department has stated that beginning in the fall of '98, secondary schools will be required to teach in Cantonese unless they can make a special case for not doing so.
		Such schools have been assured that the government considers it vital for them "...to continue to run their operations and teach their students in essentially the same way (after the hand over) without fear or favor," according to Joseph Wong, HK secretary of education and manpower.
		Carol (Fitz) Thomas graduated from UCLA's then-School of Education in 1961 with a B.A. in elementary education.
	www.gseis.ucla.edu /forum/v2n2/abroad.html (876 words)

	OrdinaryGweilo.com: Expecting some funds
		Their parents choose an ESF school because they want their children to be fluent in English and also because the facilities and quality of the education are superior to local schools (or at least the vast majority of them).
		Being accountable to the "stakeholders" is all very well, but they each have their own interests at heart, and as long as parents were happy with the education provided by ESF schools and teachers were satisfied with salaries, no-one was likely to challenge the status quo.
		The signs are that the Secretary for Education and Manpower (Professor Li Kwok-cheung) will not be fighting very hard to defend the subvention.
	www.ordinarygweilo.com /2004/11/expecting_some_.html (1341 words)

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