More than half of the 23 Hong Kong students earning perfect scores on this year’s International Baccalaureate diploma exams came from the English Schools Foundation (ESF), Hong Kong’s biggest international school operator.Ten of the 12 ESF students to ...
There were tears of joy at Hong Kong schools on Tuesday as more than 54,000 Primary Six children learned about their secondary school placement results.That came as parents’ satisfaction with the results hit a three-year high, with 90 per cent of pupil...
The number of Hong Kong students bagging perfect scores in the International Baccalaureate (IB) exams dropped by nearly a third to 23 this year, with grading based on schoolwork after written tests were cancelled amid the coronavirus pandemic.The figur...
Hong Kong education officials have told schools to review their book collections and immediately remove those titles that might breach Beijing’s national security law for the city.Following the withdrawal of several publications from public libraries l...
Hong Kong’s universities are likely to continue attracting international students despite the introduction of a sweeping national security law, according to Polytechnic University’s deputy president and provost Alexander Wai Ping-kong.“Universities in ...
Hong Kong schools accused of using teaching materials deemed politically biased could be made to submit reports, hold meetings or even issue statements addressing parents’ concerns, a top education official said on Friday.Undersecretary for Education C...
The High Court has upheld an unprecedented decision by Hong Kong’s examination authority to scrap a controversial history question that asked if “Japan did more good than harm to China” in the early 20th century.On Friday, Mr Justice Russell Coleman di...
Lawyers for a Hong Kong student challenging the scrapping of a history exam question that asked if “Japan did more good than harm to China” in the first half of the 20th century have accused the government of “threatening” the assessment authority into...
[Sponsored article] Parents and teachers in Hong Kong were faced with new challenges as they home-schooled and made it easier for children to deal with online learning assignments during the Covid-19 pandemic when schools were suspended for a prolon...
A Hong Kong secondary school has set up a task force to probe allegations that its teachers had spread improper messages in class, after a former city leader warned of suing the Education Bureau for not naming institutions in which teachers were involv...
