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The Immigration Department is a disciplined service under the Government of Hong Kong, responsible for immigration control of Hong Kong. After the handover of Hong Kong to China in July 1997, Hong Kong's immigration system remained largely unchanged from its British predecessor model.
The Hong Kong government issued the September 1997 Medium of Instruction Guidance for Secondary Schools, [3] new criteria that determined whether a school may continue to be EMI: the school needed to have teachers who could teach in English and a student body with 85% being able to learn both Chinese and English.
St. Margaret's was founded in 1965, based on the traditions of Catholic Schools. At the beginning, the school was named St. Margaret's Girls College and located in Kowloon City. In 2001, the school joined the Direct Subsidy Scheme and began accepting male students. In September 2003, St. Margaret's became the first school in Hong Kong to adopt ...
The English Schools Foundation (ESF) is an organisation that runs 22 international schools in Hong Kong. It is Hong Kong's largest English-medium organisation of international schools. [4] It was founded in 1967 with the passage of the English Schools Foundation Ordinance. [5] In addition to tuition fees, the foundation receives an ongoing ...
Many political parties in Hong Kong are opposed to large-scale Chinese immigration citing its impact on freedom and locals resources, especially in primary schools, public housing and certain jobs. These parties include most of pro-democracy parties such as Neo Democrats, Hong Kong Indigenous and Youngspiration. Many pro-democracy parties have ...
Chief Executive of Hong Kong (since 1997) Appointer: Central People's Government of China (since 1997); Governor of Hong Kong (until 1997) First holder: J Moore; Regina Ip (since 1997) Deputy: Deputy Director of Immigration: Salary: GDS(C) 4 (HK$181,450) [1] Website: Official website
However, though the People's Republic of China is a signatory to the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, since the Handover in 1997, Hong Kong has not incorporated the convention into its legislation, and so Hong Kong's immigration system does not recognise refugees. Similarly, both the People's Republic of China and Hong Kong ...
As an English-medium-of-instruction school, all school subjects are taught in English, except Chinese language and Chinese History, which are taught in Cantonese. The college's team of teachers come from Anglophone countries such as Hong Kong, Canada, Malaysia, France, India and the UK. Since 2010, the College has maintained a ratio whereby ...