EMI schools
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English-Medium-of-Instruction schools, also known as EMI schools, are secondary schools that use English as a medium of instruction in Hong Kong. As of 2019[update] there are currently around 100 EMI schools, accounting for around 30% of the total local secondary schools.[1][2]
Larry Chuen-ho Chow and Yiu-Kwan Fan stated in the publication The Other Hong Kong Report 1998 that EMI schools gained a reputation for being "elite schools providing better preparation for children to meet their future needs",[3] and were considered to be better than Chinese medium schools (CMI schools);[4] they stated since 1997 "Parents rushed to send their children to EMI schools."[5] Jacqueline Chak-Kei Woo, in the essay "Parental choice in the education market", published in 2016, stated that "EMI schools are still being treated as the "holy grail" nowadays".[6]