Education Policy

1 Sep 2012

Lawyers say the government cannot force public schools to start national education classes - which it says will be mandatory in three years' time.

3:57AM

Government must not allow politics to get in the way of a good education

3 Aug 2012

The protest rally organised by secondary school students, parents and the Professional Teachers' Union against the introduction of national education in local schools attracted over 90,000 people...

10:54PM

'Hold off' on national education for one year

1 Aug 2012

A former member of a government ad-hoc group that helped formulate the national-education policy has urged a one-year suspension on plans to introduce the subject.

9:15PM

Should cooking be taught at school?

29 May 2012

Vanessa Wong Man-chi, 16, Diocesan Girls' School

While I do agree that the home economics curriculum equips young students with life skills that will prepare them for an independent...

4:07PM

Fair grounds

7 Mar 2012

In Hong Kong, I often hear completely misguided, misinformed - and sometimes just plain disturbing - interpretations of affirmative action.

'If you were Latino, you could get into...

9:23AM

Rule-breaking schools set the wrong example

29 Nov 2010

For many of us, schools are the place where we learned about rules - about how the breaking of them brought about immediate sanction and the argument that you thought the rules were flexible and...

2:32PM

Opinion

Tom Holland

Attempts to diversify China's reserves have been a disaster

Updated 4:03AM

Howard Winn

China is like the EU; provinces are its member states

Updated 4:03AM

Children must come first in class-size debate

When two education groups with their own agendas close ranks against the government, it is worth seeing if their solidarity serves self-interest or the public interest.

6:20PM

Gimme a break

Education reforms and drug abuse at school are not the only things bothering teachers these days. Parents are causing more than their fair share of headaches.

6:37AM

'No plans' for 12 years of compulsory schooling

The Ministry of Education dismissed suggestions yesterday that the nation would extend compulsory education from nine years to 12 as part of sweeping reforms of the system.

8:10AM

letters

Mixed schools don't mean low grades

Some parents prefer to send their children to single-sex schools. They believe these schools prevent children being distracted by the opposite sex...

2:16PM

New mindset needed to reach education goals

Premier Wen Jiabao has made clear that developing a medium- to long-term plan for education reform on the mainland is a priority for his government. China can only become a first-class nation if...

6:47PM

Back to basics

At a recent symposium on the policy on the medium of instruction for secondary schools, Secretary for Education Michael Suen Ming-yeung announced that there would be a 'fine-tuning' of the...

12:02AM