Hong Kong education authorities are relaxing enrollment rules for public secondary schools that merge, aiming to encourage consolidation due to falling student numbers. Merged schools will be exempt from submitting "survival plans" for three years, even if they don't meet student quotas.

Hong Kong’s education authorities will relax rules for under-enrolled public secondary schools that merge with others in a bid to encourage consolidation amid declining student numbers. In a circular sent to all public secondary schools on Wednesday, the Education Bureau said merged schools would be exempt from submitting survival plans in the first three years after merging, even if they fail to admit 30 students or form two Form One classes. The bureau said the move aimed to “further support.....