1980165438+1October, according to the Mackenzie report, the government decided to divide the education section into the policy section under the government headquarters and the department responsible for implementing and implementing policies, and the education section was reorganized into the education section and the education department.
1983 the government put the labor affairs under the social affairs branch (later renamed as the health and welfare branch) under the jurisdiction of the education branch, and put the vocational training work originally under the responsibility of the education department under the management of the vocational training Council. Apart from education, the Education Branch is also responsible for manpower training and labour affairs in Hong Kong and takes over the Labour Department. Due to the expansion of its functions, the Education Section was renamed the Education and Manpower Section.
From 65438 to 0997, Hong Kong's sovereignty was transferred and it was renamed Education and Manpower Bureau.
On July 1 2002, Tung Chee-hwa, then Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, implemented the accountability system for principal officials and reorganized the Policy Bureaux into eleven bureaux. The Labour Department in charge of labour affairs was placed under the Economic Services Bureau and renamed the Economic Development and Labour Bureau.
June 5438 +2003 10, due to the serious fiscal deficit of the Hong Kong SAR government, the government needed to streamline its manpower, so it implemented "bureau-department merger" and merged the Education Department and its Education and Manpower Bureau to form a new Education and Manpower Bureau, which has grown to today's scale.
On July 1 2007, the Education and Manpower Bureau was renamed the Education Bureau, and continued to be responsible for education policy. In the past, the manpower policy was the responsibility of the Education and Manpower Bureau, but now it is the responsibility of the Labour and Welfare Bureau.