Policy Address

Learning Support for Grassroots Students

93.         The Government has devoted considerable resources to providing young people with formal education.  To ensure that disadvantaged students have equal learning opportunities, three CCF learning support programmes will be incorporated into the Government’s regular assistance programme from the 2014/15 school year.  These CCF programmes are: (i) providing free lunch at schools for primary students receiving a full grant under the student financial assistance schemes; (ii) increasing the flat-rate grant by about 100% for each primary and secondary student eligible under the School Textbook Assistance Scheme; and, (iii) establishing a tuition fee reimbursement mechanism for students in need pursuing eligible programmes below sub-degree level and providing them with a flat-rate academic expenses grant.  These three measures will benefit about 270 000 students.

94.         To help implement poverty alleviation and other learning support initiatives, the Government will provide public sector primary schools with an additional recurrent grant equivalent to the salary of a Clerical Assistant from the 2014/15 school year.  This will help relieve the administrative workload of teachers.

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