A new plan requiring more Hong Kong teachers to pass a test on the city’s mini-constitution to qualify for jobs will eventually be extended to kindergartens and semi-private schools as well, Hong Kong’s education minister revealed on Friday.Secretary f...
Educators have called on authorities to cut class sizes and attract more cross-border pupils to ensure Hong Kong schools’ survival, after a new government paper projected a substantial, “structural” decline in the student population in the years to com...
Schools must stage ceremonies raising the national flag at least once a week from next year and ensure it is displayed every day during term time under new guidelines issued by the Hong Kong government.The Education Bureau circular released on Monday m...
Hong Kong educators have called for further details about a new plan to require more teachers to pass a test on the city’s mini-constitution, including whether the proposal applies to native English speakers. Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor...
This article has been made freely available as a public service to our readers. Please consider supporting SCMP’s journalism by subscribing.Over the course of more than two hours, Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor on Wednesday covered almost ...
Hong Kong’s leader has distanced herself from the controversy over whether a sculpture that pays tribute to victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown can remain at the city’s top university, saying she is not involved in such decision-making.Chief...
Hong Kong Metropolitan University – previously the Open University – is the latest higher education institution to introduce a compulsory course covering the national security law imposed by Beijing last year.From November, students will have to attend...
The University of Hong Kong (HKU) has revealed that president Xiang Zhang will stay on for another term stretching through 2028, announcing the extension nearly two years before his current appointment is set to end.In a letter to staff, students and a...
A Lingnan University academic known for his social commentary and for joining a class boycott during the 2014 Occupy movement said on Friday that he had been terminated, with no reason given.The adjunct professor of cultural studies, Law Wing-sang, con...
A troubled British private school in Hong Kong has announced plans to suspend operations at one of its campuses from mid-October after failing to settle an eviction order issued by its landlord last month.In an email to parents on Thursday night, the l...