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Many Hong Kong parents feel that they have succeeded in taking care of their children once they achieve a good place at university, especially if the uni is abroad. On the flipside, more universities have lifted t . . .
In a study conducted last October by researchers at CityU, almost a third of students aged between 10-14 years old (making up the transition population of Primary 5 — Form 2 pupils) were identified as being . . .
Everyone hates joining a long queue, so it was refreshing to read a recent article about the efforts of two HKU masters students. The pair have received funding to develop “real-time human traffic flow . . .
This recent article on the BBC tells how Starbucks in the UK has started paying for it staff to study online courses from Arizona State University. This is a great example of how corporations can take social respo . . .
While it is true that speaking skills are not easily improved by completing exercises written in textbooks, Hong Kong is actually a good environment for the student of English. There is free to air English languag . . .
A nicely controversial piece about choosing schools here but it’s from Harvard so we have to at least read it. The researchers find a host of problems with ranking or evaluating schools but they pe . . .
When students first start thinking about studying overseas, they naturally tend to rely on their existing general knowledge and perception about a country in general. And this often means they begin their search i . . .
Once again the age old debate of the pros and cons of streaming children in schools based on their academic ability has been raised. According to the article, the main problem with streaming is that “St . . .
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