EDB

The Education Bureau provides support services for newly-arrived children, including the 6-month full-time Initiation Programme and the 60-hour Induction Programme, and provides public sector schools and Direct Subsidy Scheme (DSS) schools admitting these students with a School-based Support Scheme Grant to run school-based support programmes for them, so as to help them better integrate into the local community and overcome learning difficulties. All these support services are available to newly-arrived children from the Mainland, non-Chinese speaking (NCS) children and returnee children. Placement service and information on study pathways are also provided for them as appropriate. Newly-arrived non-Chinese speaking (NCS) students and their parents can access the following website for information about education services for NCS students in Hong Kong: www.edb.gov.hk/ncs... EDB website provides education-related information, including pre-primary, primary, secondary, postsecondary..

Also known as: Education Bureau

Primary location: Kowloon United Kingdom