A popular private school has been operating preschool classes without a licence in its new Kowloon Tong campus - but there is nothing the government can do about it.
This is because Think International is conducting its classes as 'playgroups', which fall outside current legislation.
The Education Bureau confirmed yesterday that the group's Lincoln Road campus had been operating since last month without being registered.
A bureau official, who preferred not to be named, said that the school should not operate in any format without proper certification, but that officials had their hands tied because the current Education Ordinance was not empowered to regulate playgroups.
'They are exploiting the legal loopholes,' the official said.
The school said the official permit would be ready soon and blamed red tape for the delay.