{"id":700,"date":"2011-03-21T21:29:39","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T13:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/?p=700"},"modified":"2022-11-21T11:55:50","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T03:55:50","slug":"periscope_dissecting_dss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/2011\/03\/periscope_dissecting_dss\/","title":{"rendered":"March 2011 \u2013 Dissecting DSS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This March, Periscope explores some of the issues surrounding Hong Kong&#8217;s Direct Subsidy Scheme (DSS) schools:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Weighing Cost and Quality\" href=\"http:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/2011\/03\/dss_quality\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Weighing Cost and Quality:\u00a0DSS schools get subsidies and charge fees, but do they provide value for money?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Parents Conquer All\" href=\"http:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/2011\/03\/dss_parents\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Parents Conquer All: teachers in DSS schools under pressure from pushy parents<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Boosting the Best or Perpetuating Privilege?\" href=\"http:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/2011\/03\/poor_students\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Boosting the Best or Perpetuating Privilege: does\u00a0DSS system make it harder for poorer kids to enter elite schools?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Varsity explores issues surrounding Hong Kong&#8217;s Direct Subsidy Scheme (DSS) schools. Do they provide value for money? Is it harder for poorer students to get into elite schools under the DSS scheme? We also hear from teachers who face pressure from parents of students at DSS schools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2002,68],"tags":[47,40],"class_list":["post-700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-issue-119","category-dissecting-dss","tag-education","tag-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=700"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21545,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700\/revisions\/21545"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}