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English-medium-of-instruction schools, also known as EMI schools, are secondary schools that use English as a medium of instruction in Hong Kong. As of 2019 there are currently around 100 EMI schools, accounting for around 30% of the total local secondary schools.[1][2]

Larry Chuen-ho Chow and Yiu-Kwan Fan stated in the publication The Other Hong Kong Report 1998 that EMI schools gained a reputation for being "elite schools providing better preparation for children to meet their future needs",[3] and were considered to be better than Chinese medium schools (CMI schools);[4] they stated since 1997 "Parents rushed to send their children to EMI schools."[5] Jacqueline Chak-Kei Woo, in the essay "Parental choice in the education market", published in 2016, stated that "EMI schools are still being treated as the "holy grail" nowadays".[6]

  1. ^ "How to Know Hong Kong and Macau: Hong Kong Public Secondary Education Today: CMI?EMI? Or Something New? (1)". How to Know Hong Kong and Macau. Retrieved 2 May 2019.
  2. ^ Loh, Chin Ee; Choo, Suzanne S.; Beavis, Catherine (29 March 2018). Literature Education in the Asia-Pacific: Policies, Practices and Perspectives in Global Times. Routledge. ISBN 9781351968805.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference Chowfanp236 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ Chow, Larry Chuen-ho and Yiu-Kwan Fan. The Other Hong Kong Report 1998. Chinese University Press, 1998. ISBN 9622018297, 9789622018297. p. 237.
  5. ^ Chow, Larry Chuen-ho and Yiu-Kwan Fan. The Other Hong Kong Report 1998. Chinese University Press, 1998. ISBN 9622018297, 9789622018297. p. 236-237.
  6. ^ Woo, Jacqueline Chak-Kei. "Parental choice in the new education market: aided-turn-direct subsidy scheme schools in focus" (Chapter 3). In: Tse, Thomas Kwan-Choi and Michael H. Lee (editors). Making Sense of Education in Post-Handover Hong Kong: Achievements and challenges. Taylor & Francis, 10 November 2016. ISBN 1317439392, 9781317439394. Start: p. 40. CITED: p. 51.