{"id":22083,"date":"2012-11-28T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.news.gov.hk\/en\/categories\/law_order\/html\/2012\/11\/20121128_144504.shtml"},"modified":"2012-11-28T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-28T04:00:00","slug":"inmates-receive-academic-certificates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/2012\/11\/28\/inmates-receive-academic-certificates\/","title":{"rendered":"Inmates receive academic certificates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.news.gov.hk\/images\/home\/department_logo\/Correctional_Services.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>More than 100 Shek Pik Prison inmates were given certificates at a ceremony today, recognising their academic achievements.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Correctional Services Department reported the 108 inmates passed 171 papers, and achieved 70 distinctions and credits and a total of 305 university credit points.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One was awarded a Bachelor Degree in Chinese Language &amp; Literature, and another was awarded an Associate Degree in General Studies, both by the Open University.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A total of 260 inmates at the facility have obtained 392 certificates this year in various academic courses and public examinations held by the Open University, the Examinations &amp; Assessment Authority, City &amp; Guilds International, and the London Chamber of Commerce &amp; Industry International Qualifications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 100 Shek Pik Prison inmates were given certificates at a ceremony today, recognising their academic achievements.\u00a0The Correctional Services Department reported the 108 inmates passed 171 papers, and achieved 70 distinctions and credits and a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-chinese-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22083"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}