Out of the 55,000 candidates who took Hong Kong’s university entrance exams this year, about 1,000 were non-local students. While authorities have recently updated the relevant regulations, they have long boasted about the Diploma of Secondary Education (DSE) as an internationally recognised curriculum and welcomed non-local students as private candidates. The Post examines the revised…
Hong Kong primary schools will need to strengthen patriotic and national security education under a revised curriculum guide for the English-language subject. The previous edition of the guide suggested English teachers let pupils explore value-laden matters including human rights and equal opportunities but they have been replaced by issues such as respect for others, animal…
President Trump signed an order designating English as the official language of the United States, the White House said on Saturday. The executive order rescinds a Clinton-era mandate that required agencies and recipients of federal funding to provide language assistance to non-English speakers, but allows agencies to keep current policies and provide documents and services…