National classes 'build values'

Linda Yeung and Ada Lee:

Education minister Eddie Ng Hak-kim has defended the controversial national-education subject for schools, saying it is useful for "values building" despite its overlap with other subjects and the growing pressure to delay its introduction.

Academics, meanwhile, continued to criticise the decision to make it a stand-alone subject, with one saying it would be better as part of the liberal studies curriculum.

The government will launch national education in primary schools next month, and make it compulsory for primary schools in 2015 and in secondary schools the following year.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at August 13, 2012 4:32 AM
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