SIS同Victoria, 點比呀? 邊間好d呢? - 國際學校

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SIS is an international school, whilst VSA is a private local school. I can provide you with more factual information on VSA if you want to know.

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Thx cherubic! I just know from you that VSA is not an international school….As they are teaching in native English and Mandarin, I always think that they are IS. Do they speak Cantonese in school? Do the kids speak in Cantonese in school as well?

You said that they are local school, do you mean you are using local curriculum?

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原帖由 cherubic 於 09-3-26 13:46 發表
SIS is an international school, whilst VSA is a private local school. I can provide you with more factual information on VSA if you want to know.

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During the class, the students speak English except for Chinese language lesson in which they use Putonghua. The students speak Cantonese during recess/ lunch time. The majority are Chinese.

They follow IB programme.

原帖由 Riesling 於 09-3-26 17:23 發表
Thx cherubic! I just know from you that VSA is not an international school….As they are teaching in native English and Mandarin, I always think that they are IS. Do they speak Cantonese in school? Do ...

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Thx again! So, can you share with me why did you say VSA is a local school? in what sense? or I may not know clearly what's the definition of an IS..... :)

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I am not sure whether the following link does help a little. RC is on the list but ISF & VSA are not. DC is not there perhaps it's too new and the list has not yet been updated.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lis ... l_schools#Hong_Kong


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I cannot identify a definition of "IS". VSA, ISF and RC are called "specified school" according to Schedule 3 of the Education Ordinance (Cap. 279). See this.

http://www.hklii.org/hk/legis/en/ord/279/sch3.html

原帖由 wisekid2007 於 09-3-27 12:08 發表
VSA, ISF , RC and DC, etc., are not classified as international school according to the definition of EB. They are all called private independent school. They have the right of not following the loca ...


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According to EB, some schools classified as "specified school" are due to the land, the land is given out by the government but the school has the freedom to run it. It doesnt mean it is a international school or a local school or a private school. The school can choose their own curriculum, like ISF and RC has totally different curriculum but they are in the same classification. ICS and Yew Chung is also in the same classification too.

Therefore, as a parent, it is more important to choose the school according to their curriculum, and no need to worry too much about how EB classified it.

原帖由 wisekid2007 於 09-3-27 12:46 發表
Thank you for clarifying the OFFICIAL name of classification of those schools as "specified school".

In fact I heard the term "Private and Independent School" from the schools themselves as well as ...


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It seems that ICS has no such requirement.

原帖由 wisekid2007 於 09-3-27 14:59 發表
Not only the land issue, one of the requirements of those "specified school" is that they should admit at least 70% of local students.


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Hi wisekid2007

Can you please enlighten us your finding a little bit further "....offically those schools should admit at least 70% of local students...'?

Where this piece of information from official website could be found anyway?

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You may simply google "private independent school" and you should be able to get links to government documents.
There is such expectation from the government that 70% of the students are local. But it is also stated that it is in fact not binding requirement for the schools, and they can adjust the percentage according to demand.


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