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Acknowledgments
The author expresses his heartfelt gratitude to the two anonymous reviewers for their constructive suggestions on an earlier version of the article.
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Notes
1. Formally introduced in 1991, direct subsidy schools are schools that receive government funding according to the number of students enrolled, but they are also allowed to charge fees, subject to some official requirements.
2. Followed a valuable comment made by one reviewer.
3. Followed the observation shared by one reviewer.
4. Thanks are due to one reviewer for pointing to these conditions.
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Thomas Kwan Choi Tse
Thomas Kwan Choi Tse is a sociologist of education by training. He is currently an associate professor of the Department of Educational Administration and Policy, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He teaches and publishes in the fields of values education and sociology of education. His works on religious education appeared in Hong Kong Journal of Catholic Studies, Hong Kong Teachers’ Centre Journal, Journal of Beliefs and Values, and British Journal of Religious Education. He is undertaking a comparative project of RE curriculums and textbooks across different religious bodies in Hong Kong.