In order to open up new students, some primary schools in Hong Kong are convinced that the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge will be completed, which is expected to attract Hong Kong students living in Zhuhai in the Mainland to go to school in Hong Kong across the border.
It is reported that some primary schools in the Hong Kong SAR recently held parent-teacher conferences and "groups" to invite parents from Zhuhai to visit the schools. In the just-concluded independent enrollment stage of Primary One, several students from Zhuhai Port have successfully enrolled in Primary One next year. The industry expects the Education Bureau and the Transport and Housing Bureau of the SAR Government to review the education plan, pay attention to cross-boundary school bus services and quotas, and upgrade transportation facilities.
After the implementation of the "zero double no" policy by the SAR Government, it is estimated that the number of students coming to Hong Kong to study in Primary One will be greatly reduced in 20 19 or later. However, with the opening of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge in sight, some primary schools in Hong Kong have turned their attention to the schooling needs of children of Hong Kong people living in Macao, Zhuhai and Zhongshan, and arranged to recruit children from Zhuhai to study in Hong Kong next September.
Huang Jinliang, principal of Huang Chubiao School of the Hong Kong Federation of Educators in Tung Chung, said that many parents of Hong Kong children living in Zhuhai plan to arrange their children to study in Hong Kong because of the bridge. Therefore, in addition to holding an education exhibition in Zhuhai, the school also held a parent-teacher conference last month and arranged for more than 20 Zhuhai parents to visit the school. Finally, three students applied for admission to Primary One next year through the self-enrollment stage, and another three students plan to transfer to Primary Two.
Tsuen Wan Chamber of Commerce School has held three open days and informed Zhuhai parents to visit the school.
Zhou, the principal of the Tsuen Wan Chamber of Commerce in Tsing Yi, also said that two Hong Kong children living in Zhuhai entered the independent enrollment stage, and three others applied to transfer to Primary 2 to Primary 4 respectively. He said that three open days have been held to inform Zhuhai parents to visit the school by SMS. "These parents care that Hong Kong education attaches importance to English, and some parents will wait until the bridge is officially opened to traffic." He estimated that it would take about 45 minutes to drive to school from the bridge.