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Suri Chan is a first-year student at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Photo: Handout

Will allowing more Hong Kong schools to teach in English be too testing for pupils?

6 months ago02 mins

Suri Chan Tin-wing, a first-year English major at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, found herself struggling to write her first creative short story – a 300-word assignment for the compulsory course “Introduction to Literature”. Throughout her secondary schooling at Yan Chai Hospital Law Chan Chor Si College in Kowloon Bay, only science subjects, such…

Why are more Hong Kong pupils opting for IB programme over DSE?

Cs news1 year ago02 mins

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,…