Hong Kong mum to launch a TripAdvisor-for-schools website, Whizpa, to help parents pick best options for their kids
Jennifer Chin’s crowdfunded website will let parents rate and review Hong Kong kindergartens, schools, summer camps, tutors and more to help families get best out of city’s education system
To get into a university anywhere these days, it seems you need to have it all: top marks, accolades across multiple activities, and a well-rounded personality to boot. In Hong Kong, this can be even tougher, with rigorous testing and credentials required even at kindergarten level.
Parents desperate not to let their children fall behind can often get lost in cyberspace, as they search for the best schools, classes and extracurricular activities.
Enter Whizpa, a bilingual website that will catalogue education providers in Hong Kong and allow parents to rate and review schools, athletics centres, art facilities, tutoring classes, even summer camps.
“Education in Hong Kong is clearly big business – there are tonnes of providers out there, and as a parent, it’s almost impossible to know every single one of them,” says Whizpa founder Jennifer Chin, a mother of three. “I just felt it was very stressful, trying to google every single centre in Hong Kong.”
