Literacy

John Wood talks about charity Room to Read

18 Mar 2013

John Wood is a Microsoft executive who gave up his lucrative corporate career to change the world. That was in 1999, and it's fair to say he's made a difference.

9:47AM

Literacy success highlights pitfalls

11 Jan 2013

The recent results of Progress in International Reading and Literacy Study (PIRLS 2011), considered the "gold standard" in measuring literacy development globally, provides a perfect example of...

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Between The Lines: Our children top the world at reading, but do they enjoy it?

6 Jan 2013

The PIRLS 2011 International Results in Reading were recently announced, and Hong Kong placed first out of 49 countries in reading ability of fourth-graders. This was widely reported locally and...

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Largest developing nations still face challenges getting children to school

19 Nov 2012

Delegations from the world's nine most populous developing countries just met in New Delhi to discuss a subject vital for their countries' futures: education.

3:24AM

Give the young the skills to thrive

17 Oct 2012

Despite population ageing in some societies, including in East Asia, the world on the whole is getting younger. Yet, many young people lack the basic skills to make the most of what the world has...

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Writers blocked

24 Jun 2012

For all the loudly trumpeted deficiencies in the local education system - and there are plenty of those - the fact remains that more Hong Kong people can read now than at any other time in history...

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Opinion

Michael Cox

The 1-2 punch heard around the world

5:37PM

Wang Xiangwei

Placating graduates a work in progress

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5:24AM

A cultural crisis writ large for China

Language and destiny go hand in hand, as much for countries as for individuals. The mainland has been acutely aware of that as it strives to meet its goal of teaching another 43 million people to...

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A foolproof guide to raising intelligent little monsters

I have been searching for decades for a comprehensive guide that can provide parents with the tools to raise intelligent little beings.

I had pretty much given up any hope of finding...

11:46AM

Girls better than boys in digital literacy test

Hong Kong pupils' digital literacy is above the international average and the city's girls are slightly more digitally literate than boys, according to exam results released by the Paris-based...

1:42PM

ESF leads phonics revival

I barely recall how I was taught to read. But as I grew up in Britain in the 1970s, it is likely to have been by what is called the 'whole-language' approach.

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Bid to cut illiteracy rate to hit UN goal

The Ministry of Education is moving to cut the country's illiterate population by more than 10 million in the next five years to meet a pledge to halve it under the United Nations' Millennium...

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Literacy standards fall among young Australians

The literacy skills of young Australians have fallen over the past 10 years, according to an annual report compiled by the country's Bureau of Statistics.

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