本文以2006-2008年間一項有關香港鄉村學校研究計劃所收集的資料為基礎，剖析戰後香港於不同時期對鄉村學校教育政策的轉變，與鄉村學校發展的關係。 研究結果顯示，50-60年代，新界及離島各處鄉村學校蓬勃發展的現象，主要受港府的建校政策及鄉村教師政策影響，配合當時鄉村人口迅速增長等因素而致。 2002年，香港政府審計署從成本效益角度批評村校辦學費用偏高。隨後教育統籌局根據一份《統整成本高使用率低的小學》文件著令數十間鄉村學校停辦。數據顯示，2001至2008年間，已有超過70間鄉村學校相繼結束。 現時仍然運作的「村校」包括已經完全轉型為新式多層現代化建築的大型學校，以及位處交通樞紐或鄉郊偏遠地的傳統金字塔頂平房校舍的村校約十所。

香港的新界地區，傳統的私塾教育最早可追溯自未朝；清代私塾，至今仍然有跡可尋。第二次世界大戰後，新界的鄉村學校如雨後春筍，蓬勃發展，五、六十年代是鄉村教育的黃金時代。香港政府早年積極借助民間力量，推動基礎教育。本文將以國家和民間社會為分析導向，探討：(一) 戰後香港新界教育的發展概況，描述鄉村學校的創辦和發展；(二) 從鄉村學校的發展，分析香港政府在普及教育扮演的角色和政策；(三) 從民間社會的投入，了解國家與社會的關係。普及教育是上世紀教育的趨勢，香港狂邁向普及教育的路途中，呈現香港本土的特色，本文嘗試以香港獨特的情境，作出回應和分析。

The Catholic Church, the largest school-sponsoring body in Hong Kong, is a major provider of religious schools and educational programmes. In 2006, the Catholic Diocese released its first centralised and comprehensive curricular document concerning religious and moral education (RME) in Catholic schools. Taking this programme as a reflection of the Church's response to the challenges of a changing social milieu, severed church–state relations and shortcomings in Catholic education in post-1997 Hong Kong, this article reviews the framework and principles of the new curriculum. While retaining strong religious elements in its curriculum, the Catholic Church has widened and re-oriented its programme, and re-designed the contents and pedagogical methods. The new programme is characterised by adjustment and differentiation, upholding Christian faith, and selective absorption of Chinese culture. This article also discusses problems in the implementation of the new programme, including organisational compartmentalisation and an underdeveloped political dimension in the content.
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客家人向以崇文興教見稱。20世紀初，巴色差會客籍傳遞人彭樂三、張和彬、淩善元等在香港粉嶺龍山地段(舊稱龍躍頭) 舊松雷堂村建崇謙堂村，並聯合村民于1913年辦學，命名為"谷詒書室"，以客家話教學。1942年建"從謙學校"，接受香港政府津貼， 是香港新界區首問津貼小學。學校多次擴建，曾有24班，約1000名學生。到90年代末，香港由於出生率下降，適齡學童大減，"從謙學校"在2004年接到香港教統局的"殺校令"，在2007 年8 月底停辦。通過對"從謙學校" 的辦學歷史的敘述，可清晰地瞭解客家人辦學的觀念，以及香港社會發展的轉變歷程。
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Under the prevailing ideology of neoliberalism, delegation of in-house functions to third-party for-profit organizations and personnel has gradually expanded its presence in numerous sectors including schooling. In the past decades, polities worldwide have started to allocate government funds to finance schools to purchase educational services on top of traditionally outsourced ancillary functions, the phenomenon of which was termed the “new education privatization” by Patricia Burch. In the US and the UK, this practice has found to raise and perpetuate quality and equity issues in education, particularly concerning service evaluation mechanisms and class-related discrepancy in educational attainment. This presentation explores the degree to which the new privatization of education has been promoted in the Hong Kong context with discussion of relevant quality control and educational equality issues. Based on a document research on a yearly fund provided by the Education Bureau specifically for hiring educational services, the types of purchased services and quality control schemes used by schools in 2 affluent and 2 underprivileged districts have been analyzed and compared. It was found that the phenomenon has had a considerable presence in Hong Kong and may raise accountability and equity issues due to design of evaluation methods and choice of services.