(Cap 279C) They were established by missionaries and churches in the nineteenth and early twentieth century, and receive grant-in-aid from the government to operate, thus named Grant Schools.
c. 75) by the imperial parliament, which allowed state funding to Church schools, the colonial government followed suit and adopted similar measures to provide public education with limited financial resources.
[1] As a result, the government decided to abandon the Grant system in 1921 except for a few competent schools.
A number of Grant Schools have recently joined the Direct Subsidy Scheme, another funding programme initiated by the government which allows greater freedom for schools to devise the curriculum, and set entrance requirements, and tuition fees [1], in high profile partly due to their dissatisfactions towards the perceived unfriendly education reform policy.
The Council is highly critical of the education reform in recent years, as they see this as an attempt of the government to destroy these "relic institutes from the former dynasty".
Codes of Aid (1994), retrieved from the Education Bureau's website [3] Archived 5 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine