Education and Youth Affairs Bureau (DSEJ) senior official Sit Weng Tou said yesterday that the bureau currently subsidises about 2,000 local pupils studying in five Guangdong cities – Foshan, Guangzhou, Jiangmen, Zhongshan and Zhuhai – and it now plans to also subsidise local pupils studying in Dongguan and Shenzhen in the 2016/2017 school year.
Sit, who heads the bureau’s Socio-Education Division, made the announcement after yesterday’s closed-door meeting of the government-appointed Non-tertiary Education Committee at the bureau.
Talking to reporters, Sit said that from the 2012/2013 school year the bureau started a subsidy scheme for local pupils who study in Guangdong, pointing out that so far five cities are included in the scheme and in the 2015/2016 school year 2,000 local pupils benefited.
Education and Youth Affairs Bureau (DSEJ) senior official Sit Weng Tou talks about the subsidy scheme at the bureau yesterday. Photo: Ian Sio Tou
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