Over 1,700 parents, students and educators attended the International Schools Festival – Hong Kong Island 2026. Held at Hong Kong Ocean Park Marriott Hotel on September 19, it featured 46 schools and education advisers, and offered families guidance on admissions, curricula, university applications and future education planning.
Across five parent talks and 10 school-led information sessions, speakers returned to one central message: education should not be driven by fear or the pursuit of a...
Up to 500 schools across France will be totally or partly closed on Monday because of a wave of pupil protests that has shaken the country, the education minister said.
Lessons will be “totally or partly suspended” in some “400-500” high schools as the security conditions “have not been fulfilled”, said Education Minister Edouard Geffray on Sunday, adding that 24 schools had been “burned or ransacked” since the start of the movement.
He described the closures as chiefly a security precaution...
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I am writing in response to the op-ed, “3 easy wins to modernise Hong Kong’s education system” (September 4), particularly its argument that assessment must adapt to artificial intelligence.
The most useful change would not be another rule telling students whether artificial...
Cornell University president Michael Kotlikoff said he was “deeply disturbed” by a student’s 2024 rape allegation that has drawn national outrage.
“My heart aches when I think of what she experienced,” Kotlikoff said in a video message released on Saturday, saying the university must “do everything we can to prevent what happened to Jane Doe” from happening again.
Lawyers for a Jane Doe last month filed a civil lawsuit against the Ivy League university, its leaders, the Chi Phi fraternity, her...
When one of my seniors from medical school was pregnant during her surgical residency, she planned the exact date of her C-section so she could complete her training on time. When I asked why she didn’t consider taking maternity leave to recuperate afterwards, she said she couldn’t bring herself to lag behind her peers. “I didn’t want motherhood to slow me down,” she said.
In medicine, it is common for women to delay childbearing until after their early career years, often into their...
