Education Department

4 Jan 2003

The Education Department has been criticised by the Audit Commission for planning to spend $1.37 billion on primary schools which are not needed.

The oversupply of schools is partly...

Closure fears for 12 village schools

4 Oct 2002

Twelve village schools are facing closure after losing last-gasp appeals against an Education Department ban on admitting Primary One pupils in the next school year.

Dancin' in the dark no way to effect prefect training

7 Sep 2002

I am writing to express my bewilderment and anger about the Prefect Training Workshop organised by the Education Department on July 6 at a school hall on Waterloo Road, Kowloon.

Parents misled on appeals over school places

18 May 2002

The Education Department made misleading statements which discouraged parents from appealing against the allocation of secondary school placements, a report by the Ombudsman has found.

Leave tutorial colleges alone

2 Feb 2002

Tutorial colleges play a vital role in Hong Kong education but are treated unfairly by the Education Department. The pressure on students to get an education is enormous.

Opinion

Jake Van Der Kamp

An age-old problem and the sums that just don't add up

Howard Winn

HSBC suffers the Taibbi treatment in Rolling Stone

Shirley Yam

How tycoons' IPO 'losses' may hide profits at herd's expense

Against priority plea

As a parent of a child affected by the sudden closure of the Canadian Overseas International College, I could not agree more with the letter headlined 'Bankrupt school's children cannot be put on...

Private schools suffer discrimination

Reading 'Learning the hard way' (South China Morning Post, October 10) infuriated me.

Schools of disrepute to be named and shamed

The Education Department and Consumer Council will name disreputable private schools in an attempt to clamp down on unscrupulous operators.

Late warning on school closures annoys parents and students

Updated at 1.15pm:
Students and parents on Monday complained of being told too late about school closures, as heavy rain forced a complete washout on the first full day of the new school...

40 private schools in illicit-courses probe

The Education Department is investigating up to 40 private schools suspected of publishing misleading advertisements or running unregistered courses.

Costly textbooks

Amid appalling standards of English and Chinese, and criticisms about the allocation of school places and examination systems, the Education Department should also look into the cost of textbooks...