English Schools Foundation

The English Schools Foundation (ESF) operates five secondary schools, nine primary schools and a school for students with special educational needs across Hong Kong Island, Kowloon and the New Territories. It is the largest international educational foundation in Asia.

TALKING POINTS

Talking points

21 May 2013

ESF board debates fee increases

4:16AM

ESF fees could rise 20pc as subsidy phases out

8 May 2013

Fees for new students entering the English Schools Foundation from 2016 could be more than 20 per cent higher as the government phases out its decades-old subsidy for the foundation. The change is...

7:04AM

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A lesson for the pig-headed bureaucrats

1 May 2013

The government says it wants Hong Kong to be an education hub and a world city but it simply refuses to consider simple changes to its school subsidy policy that would go a long way towards...

2:32AM

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New school ties

30 Apr 2013

An international school or English Schools Foundation (ESF) education is usually the default choice for expatriate families in Hong Kong. But this may not be the case for much longer.

9:49AM

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Drug dealers selling more to ESF school students in Hong Kong: police

14 Apr 2013

Police have warned of "an alarming increase" in drug dealers who sell to schoolchildren - in particular, those at English School Foundation (ESF) schools.

12:34AM

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Letters to the Editor, April 6, 2013

6 Apr 2013

The proposal to build a sports complex at the Kai Tak site has proved to be controversial. I think if a new sports complex is to be constructed in Hong Kong, the location should be changed.

4:02AM

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Opinion

Tom Holland

Worrying economic parallels between China and India

4:13PM

Howard Winn

Elsie Leung caught up in Rusal's byzantine politics

3:35AM

Letters to the Editor, April 2, 2013

The description in Jose Chan's letter ("Policyholders worse off with proposed insurance authority", March 28) distorts our proposals. One of the purposes of establishing the new authority is to...

3:45AM

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Letters to the Editor, March 28, 2013

The Hong Kong Motor Vehicle Idling (Fixed Penalty) Ordinance was implemented on December 15, 2011. It makes it illegal to idle your engine for more than three minutes from that date, subject to a...

3:30AM

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Discovery College parents angry over ESF fee increase, levy

Parents at an English Schools Foundation private school have voiced their anger over a fee rise of nearly 10 per cent and a non-refundable building levy. Some say they will refuse to pay.

6:01AM

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Letters to the Editor, March 25, 2013

John Charleston writes that North Korea is "safe" from American influence thanks to its military strength and nuclear weapons programme, while suggesting that the "right-wing" South China Morning...

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EDUCATION

Anger over 'disastrous' plan to raise ESF fees

The English Schools Foundation's fee-rise plan has upset parents and prompted lawmakers to question its cost structure. Native English (NET) teacher Perry Bayer, whose son is studying at West...

4:05AM

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EDUCATION

Parents hit again as ESF raises fees by up to 5.9pc

The English Schools Foundation will raise its fees by up to 5.9 per cent as negotiations drag on over the size of the subsidy it receives from the government. In a letter to parents yesterday, the...

8:59AM

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