Secretary for Education Christine Choi Yuk-lin – Charm

Kwun Tong Maryknoll College had planned to tighten smartphone rules. Photo: Eugene Lee

Should Hong Kong ban smartphones in schools and who makes final call?

2 months ago03 mins

When Kwun Tong Maryknoll College in Hong Kong announced that it would tighten its mobile phone rules on campus, some pupils reacted so strongly that the Catholic boys’ school was forced to put the changes on hold. The secondary school, which currently only bans pupils from using their mobile phones on campus, had planned to…

How many non-local students are going to Hong Kong universities since quota rise?

6 months ago02 mins

Hong Kong public universities had more than 20,000 non-local undergraduate students in the second academic year since the government doubled quotas, a 17 per cent year-on-year increase, as the education minister promised to review the threshold. The Education University of Hong Kong (EdU) saw the sharpest increase in non-local undergraduate students under the policy, jumping…