13 May 2013

Next month is an important one for parents across the territory: it's when they find out if their children will be able to attend Primary One at their preferred school, under the government's...

9:42AM
7 May 2013

My daughter is in Year Two and her school bag is so heavy that I have to carry it for her. Some of her books and folders have half a year's work in and she has to take these to school most days....

11:38AM
4 Apr 2013

The administration of Donald Tsang Yam-kuen introduced small-class teaching in Hong Kong's primary schools several years ago, yet the current government seems to be resisting the same approach in...

3:17AM
19 Dec 2012

Six government employees have been punished for last Friday's attack on a primary school in Henan by a knife-wielding man who injured 23 pupils.

3:18AM
16 Dec 2012

The mentally ill man who punched and slashed 23 people - mostly children - in a Henan province primary school on Friday rampaged through the premises for more than half an hour before he was...

4:41AM
3 Dec 2012

Montessori kindergartens are common across Hong Kong but there is only one primary school using the internationally adopted teaching approach.

The International Montessori School in Tin Hau...

5:43AM

Primary Six pupils will take only one public test instead of two in the coming three years as the Education Bureau tries to ease the pressure on them.

12:46AM

The Ministry of Education issued an emergency circular yesterday calling on all schools to draw a lesson from the stampede in Aksu, Xinjiang, which left 41 students injured on Monday.

2:25PM

A knife-wielding teacher in western Guangdong stabbed 16 primary schoolchildren and one of their teachers yesterday, causing severe injuries.

9:45AM

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A fifth of primary schools last year ran Primary One classes almost as small or even smaller than the proposed small-class level, according to enrolment figures on the official school profile...

7:44AM

The principal of a primary school embroiled in controversy for cancelling its through-train scheme earlier this year has been sacked for misconduct.

1:09AM

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