{"id":45364,"date":"2022-06-12T10:06:55","date_gmt":"2022-06-12T01:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/12\/hong-kong-nets-foreign-teachers-of-english-forced-to-take-allegiance-oath"},"modified":"2022-06-12T10:06:55","modified_gmt":"2022-06-12T01:06:55","slug":"hong-kong-nets-foreign-teachers-of-english-forced-to-take-allegiance-oath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=45364","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong NETs \u2013 foreign teachers of English \u2013 forced to take allegiance oath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authoritarian measures are widened to meet Chinese loyalty requirements, despite fears it will worsen teacher shortages<\/p>\n<p>Foreign English-language teachers working in Hong Kong government schools will need to swear allegiance to the city, officials have ordered, as fears grow about the territory\u2019s ability to retain educators in the face of increasing restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong\u2019s education bureau said on Saturday that native-speaking English teachers (NETs) and advisers working in government-run schools must sign a declaration by 21 June in order to continue working.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/12\/hong-kong-nets-foreign-teachers-of-english-forced-to-take-allegiance-oath\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authoritarian measures are widened to meet Chinese loyalty requirements, despite fears it will worsen teacher shortagesForeign English-language teachers working in Hong Kong government schools will need to swear allegiance to the city, officials have o&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,59,48,2428,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-global-development","category-hong-kong","category-workers-rights","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45365,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45364\/revisions\/45365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}