The Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion says all 279 gov­ern­ment and gov­ern­ment-as­sist­ed pri­ma­ry and sec­ondary schools se­lect­ed for up­grades will be ready to wel­come stu­dents when the new aca­d­e­m­ic year be­gins on Mon­day, Sep­tem­ber 8.

The min­istry said 246 schools have com­plet­ed their full scope of re­pair works, while 25 are in the fi­nal stages of up­grades. Of­fi­cials stressed that the on­go­ing works will not af­fect re­open­ing, as mea­sures have been put in place to en­sure safe­ty and com­fort for stu­dents and staff.

Eight oth­er schools were ad­dressed through tar­get­ed projects, cor­po­rate part­ner­ships and emer­gency re­pair in­ter­ven­tions.