The Education and Youth Affairs Bureau (DSEJ) has received complaints from local residents about being enrolled in courses of the government’s continuing education subsidy scheme without their consent, according to a report by government-owned broadcaster TDM yesterday.
According to the report, Kong Ngai, who heads the DSEJ Department of Education, said that his bureau had received and investigated twenty complaints, in which residents who originally joined an organsation and signed up for a free course, realised that they had ended up enrolling in courses of the continuing education subsidy scheme.
According to Kong, his bureau discovered that concerning the enrolment without consent two organisations were probably involved in criminal offences, adding that the Education and Youth Affairs Bureau has already transferred the cases to the Public Prosecution Office (MP). Kong also said that for the time being the bureau would halt all payments to the two organisations, according to the TDM report.
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