Hong Kong should immediately introduce a residency period for subsidised university degree places instead of gradually implementing it over two years, to prevent the dependants of non-local talent from exploiting the transition, a concern group has said. The call was issued in a petition from the Hong Kong Local Students Rights Concern Group, but was…
The performance of local students in Hong Kong’s university entrance exams has not been affected by an influx of private candidates, authorities have said, even though the number of mainland Chinese participants has grown substantially and includes some whose eligibility has been questioned. The Hong Kong Examinations and Assessment Authority’s defence coincides with calls from…
More than 70 schools in mainland China are offering Hong Kong’s university entrance exam courses, with some operators planning for further expansion given the curriculum’s growing demand, the Post has found. The rising popularity of the Diploma of Secondary Education (DSE) also prompted calls for Hong Kong authorities to internationalise the assessment launched in 2012…
More than 90 per cent of Hong Kong students from four mainland Chinese schools met the city’s university’s minimum requirements in the local public exams, far exceeding the overall average of 38 per cent of all assessment candidates. The four schools in the Greater Bay Area are the only institutions on the mainland approved by…
Hong Kong education authorities are taking law enforcement action against a Shenzhen-based tutorial centre that planned to recruit students for its university entrance exam programmes at a local private secondary school without registering. The Education Bureau said on Thursday that it had not received an application from the tutorial centre Capture Star to operate a…
Hong Kong’s plans to impose a required residency period for children of non-local talent before they can apply for subsidised tertiary education is part of efforts to ensure fairness and the reasonable use of public funds, a minister has said. Secretary for Education Christine Choi Yuk-lin on Saturday defended the coming policy change, noting the…
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On Wednesday, more than 55,000 Hong Kong students received their results for the Diploma of Secondary Education (DSE), the city’s university entrance exam. Sixteen top scorers from 14 schools achieved the perfect 5** grades in six subjects, with 10 of them becoming “super top scorers” excelling in the extended module. Here they share their insights…
The number of students taking the International Baccalaureate (IB) programme in Hong Kong has increased by nearly 20 per cent over the past five years, with more students and parents preferring its flexibility to the city’s traditional, exam-oriented university entrance system. More than 2,600 students taking the IB exam will learn their results on Sunday,…