Friday, July 10, 2009

Hongkong school offers free notebooks to attract student enrolments


(星島日報報道)
為期兩天的升中註冊昨日展開,面對經濟不景,有屯門區中學向中一新生提供多項福利,包括免費課本、午膳、交通津貼及輕便型手提電腦(Netbook)等,估計每名中一新生可獲高達一萬元津貼.

屯門區深培中學日前在學校網頁張貼了一張中一「叩門」宣傳單張,聲稱「為減輕中一學生家長的經濟負擔」,新學年推出多項「中一新生福利措施」,包括免費贈送全套中一課本、全年留校午膳、一套夏季校服及一部輕便型手提電腦。校方更提供三年共六百元的初中課外圖書津貼,區外學生則有全年二千元的交通津貼,而家住天水圍的學生不僅享有全年免費單程校巴服務,更額外有一千元交通津貼,該校並已開辦食物銀行,為有需要的低收入學生家庭提供即時食物援物。

  有網民則在網上討論區上譏諷該校做法是「六千蚊換學生一世前途」,立法會議員張文光亦認為該校今次做法難免引起非議,「學校為求生存,只能選擇這樣難堪的做法,正是殺校政策造成的惡性競爭。」

A secondary school offers freebies to attract students to enroll for next September..
- a notebook
- free meals
- free school books
- free school uniform
- $600 book subsidies
- $2000 per year transport subsidies (outside zone)
- free school bus transport (in zone)
- $1000 per year transport subsidies (in zone students)

It reflected the crisis of school closures in Hongkong where government will shut down schools that have insufficient enrollments next year...


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