Secretary for Education Choi Yuk-lin Says Convergence Upgrade Scheme Allows Aided and Direct Subsidy Schools to Merge, Ensuring No Increase in the Number of Either Type of School

The Education Bureau will launch the "Convergence Upgrade Scheme" within this school year, encouraging mergers of publicly funded primary and secondary schools and allowing aided schools to merge with direct subsidy schools. LegCo member Shiu Ka-fai raised concerns in an oral question about the transitional arrangements for mergers between schools with different funding modes. Secretary for Education Choi Yuk-lin said the bureau is studying a plan to ensure that the number of subsidised and direct subsidy schools will not increase after mergers, in order to stabilise the education ecosystem.