30 Sep 2012

The first overseas branch of a mainland university will open to undergraduate students next month, in Vientiane. And, as Patrick Boehler discovers, getting to grips with Laos and its authorities...

11:49PM
17 Jun 2013

It's morning assembly, and Form One students at Pui Ching Middle School, have their iPads ready. It's the same story in their English and Chinese classes.

9:50AM
17 Jun 2013

Hong Kong has been judged to have one of the best education systems in the world. In international assessments, such as the OECD's Programme for International Student Assessment, our students come...

9:46AM
11 Jun 2013

Earlier this year, Primary Six pupils of Sun Fong Chung Primary School in Tai Po had fun organising their own Lunar New Year market.

10:41AM
10 Jun 2013

Local students embrace studying the IB programme because it offers them writing training, a common task at university, as the curriculum requires them to compose a 4,000-word extended essay.

4:19AM
7 Jun 2013

Equality at stake in college DSS proposal

I would like to express my opinion on the proposal by St Stephen's Girls' College [and St Stephen's Girls' Primary School] to join the Education...

1:12AM

Adopt land exchange for new town

At long last, after looking at those miles of underdeveloped land between Tuen Mun and Yuen long, it has been decided to develop the area surrounding Hung...

12:47AM

Very proud of collective memories

I was born and bred in Hong Kong and, like most people living all over the world, I have great affection for my home, its people and culture.

1:58AM

Like many working-class parents, Yim Ka-yin welcomes publicly funded preschools. Her younger daughter, now in K1, gets HK$1,680 each month under the government's voucher scheme to subsidise...

9:49AM

Sitting in the audience, nine-year-old Locke was mesmerised as  the mallets and drum sticks wielded by Evelyn Glennie seemingly disappear in a rhythmic blur.

10:15AM

In one of child abuse, a five-year-old boy was nearly smothered with a quilt, while in the other seven kindergarten children had their arms cut with scissors. The offender in both cases was their...

7:46AM

A chemistry professor from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has become the first scholar in the city to be bestowed the honour of Academician by the prestigious German...

9:29AM

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