感謝同工的努力和支持，經過教協會個多月來竭力爭取和協調，立法會財務委員會終於2015年1月16日順利通過「2014-15年度公務員薪酬調整」議案！

教協會於本年1月6日至14日期間，發起「教育界要求盡快審議公務員調薪議案」簽名運動。在短短一星期內，教協會共收集到155間學校共4,122個教師簽名，要求：（一）政府調動議程，把公務員加薪提前討論並通過；及（二）立法會議員確保公務員加薪能盡快獲得通過。 …… 閱讀全文 →

Chan Kwok-kuen
Director, Publication Department

Foreword: The third policy address announced by Chief Executive CY Leung in this mid-month was so politicized, yet many educational issues had not been timely addressed. More disappointing was that CY proposed in the coming three years the Administration would spend around 190 million dollars to enhance the number of primary and secondary sister schools in HK and mainland, and an extra 40 million dollars to financially support the youth exchange programs in the mainland. At the same time CY publicly criticized “Undergrad”, the official magazine of the Hong Kong University Students’ Union, which featured a cover story entitled “Hong Kong people deciding their own fate” in the 2014 February issue. This strongly implies that education is now serving the Authority. Associated with the recent incidents, we are worried about the political intervention in education, and the coming events cast their shadows before.

We all understand that the authoritarian government regards education as kind of political tool to manupulate ideology, and tries with the utmost effort to make education professionals to succumb to the Authority. The Chinese government of the mainland manipulates openly the education system to meet its political ends all the time, and we are aware that the political intervention in the education of HK is now no more invisible. …… 閱讀全文 →