Some Hong Kong school heads want education officials to defer the revamp of the liberal studies syllabus for senior secondary students this September, with frontline teachers still divided over the controversial subject’s proposed overhaul.The appeals ...
Hong Kong’s eight publicly-funded universities last year recorded the highest number of dropouts since at least 2004, with more than 2,100 students quitting school amid the double whammy of social unrest and the Covid-19 pandemic.New figures released b...
As much as 70 per cent of educators polled by a pro-establishment teachers’ union said they supported a proposed revamp of Hong Kong’s controversial liberal studies subject, as a month-long consultation on reforming the syllabus ends on Tuesday.In a po...
For decades, university students have been the backbone of Hong Kong’s civil rights movement.But some of their increasingly aggressive rhetoric, and involvement in the sometimes violent and disruptive anti-government protests in 2019, has left the auth...
China will double efforts in developing applied research in the next five years even though the country failed to meet its research spending target for its last five-year plan, according to its science minister.Minister of Science and Technology Wang Z...
The Chinese University of Hong Kong’s student union has withdrawn its controversial election manifesto and other campaign statements, two days after school management cut ties with the body citing possible national security law breaches.“Our cabinet ha...
[Sponsored article] A survey of 402 Hong Kong teachers, carried out by the Hong Kong Federation of Youth Groups, showed that emotional issues are an increasingly common concern among students. The 2017 study also revealed that an overwhelming major...
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) revealed on Thursday it would cut ties with its student union and impose a raft of tough measures on the body, accusing committee members of “exploiting” the campus for their political agenda.The university al...
Education chiefs hit back on Monday at the “malicious labelling” of national security education in Hong Kong as “brainwashing or spoon-feeding young children”, adding it was imperative to strengthen students’ critical thinking to guard against fake new...
Hundreds of thousands of Hong Kong pupils on Monday returned to campus for the first time in months under an easing of Covid-19 restrictions allowing all schools to bring back at least a third of students for in-person classes.The return of face-to-fac...