{"id":164036,"date":"2026-03-22T23:52:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T15:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/?p=164036"},"modified":"2026-03-22T23:52:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T15:52:32","slug":"primary-school-mergers-not-a-plan-for-survival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/?p=164036","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Primary school mergers not a plan for survival&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newsstatic.rthk.hk\/images\/mfile_1848306_1_M_20260322122336.jpg\" alt=\"news image\"><br \/>Education minister Christine Choi on Sunday said a government plan for under-enrolled primary schools to merge is not designed to save them from closure as she called on sponsoring bodies to plan ahead in case of insufficient pupil intakes.<\/p>\n<p>A record 15 schools &ndash; including one government and 14 subsidised institutions &ndash; have been barred from running a primary one class next academic year after failing to secure at least 16 pupils&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.rthk.hk\/rthk\/en\/component\/k2\/1848306-20260322.htm\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#38405;&#35835;&#26356;&#22810;&#65288;Read More&#65289;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Education minister Christine Choi on Sunday said a gove [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-localnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=164036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=164036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=164036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=164036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}