Hong Kong’s Education Bureau is taking the unprecedented step of cutting all ties with the city’s largest teachers’ union and stripping it of its status as a professional group after two Communist Party mouthpieces branded the body a “malignant tumour”...
The principal of a Hong Kong kindergarten ordered teachers to carry out personal tasks for her when classes were suspended for the coronavirus pandemic and insulted one of them when they exposed her behaviour publicly, according to a government investi...
A cooling paint for buildings to increase the efficiency of air conditioners and an app which allows people to pay gym fees on a minute-by-minute-basis are among innovative projects approved under a HK$500 million (US$64.3 million) scheme to support en...
Hong Kong educators have warned of an increasing exodus of pupils as part of a wave of emigration following the introduction of the national security law, after the latest official data showed more than 15,000 students had quit school in a year.To cope...
Students from at least three publicly funded Hong Kong universities will have to learn about national security as a compulsory requirement from the coming academic year.Baptist University on Monday said all undergraduates including overseas students ad...
Eleven-year-old Nathan Chang Lok-hang ranked among the top 15 per cent of students sitting maths in Hong Kong’s university entrance exams this year, despite being one of the youngest candidates in the qualification’s history.But the Primary Six pupil s...
Henry Huang Qihao learned a lesson in Form One that he never forgot: beware of strangers you befriend online.A gamer he met over the internet tricked him into sharing his game account and password, then locked him out and demanded a HK$500 (US$64) rans...
Hong Kong pupils have been offered a glimpse of how they will be tested in the revamped liberal studies subject, with a new sample question asking them to explain how they might ease concerns over the impact of the national security law on the city’s b...
Ajab Khan was working up to four hours a day after school delivering food to pay for his sister’s university fees, only quitting a month before the start of his Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education (DSE) exams.The 20-year-old student – one of 49,97...
While most of the nearly 50,000 candidates of Hong Kong’s university entrance exams finish off their papers within just a few hours, Ching Chun-ho needs almost twice as long.The 20-year-old student from Hong Kong Red Cross John F Kennedy Centre – a spe...