educational technology in hongkong

2.  Hong Kong is a city, and
former British colony, in
southeastern China. Vibrant
and densely populated, it’s a
major port and global financial
center famed for its tower-
studded skyline. It’s also
known for its lively food scene
– from Cantonese dim sum to
extravagant high tea – and its
shopping, with options
spanning chaotic Temple
Street Night Market to the
city’s innumerable bespoke
tailors.
 Dialing code: +852
 ISO code: HKG
 Weather: 29°C, Wind S at 10
km/h, 79% Humidity
 Local time: Tuesday 8:10 PM
 Currency: Hong Kong dollar

4.  Hong Kong is known as
the "World's Food
Fair", and dining out is
one of the most popular
things to do as a tourist.
From roadside stalls to
world-class restaurants,
Hong Kong offers a wide
variety of choices when
it comes to dining out.
 Many of the restaurants
in Hong Kong have been
influenced by both
Eastern and Western
cultures. In just this one
city, food enthusiasts
can indulge in all kinds
of authentic
cuisines from Japan,
Korea, Thailand,
Malaysia, Singapore,
Vietnam, India, Europe,
and America. With such
a wide variety of food,
Hong Kong has truly

5. LAND MARKS
Hong Kong Disneyland is a theme park
located on reclaimed land in Penny's Bay,
Lantau Island. It is the first theme park
located inside the Hong Kong Disneyland
Resort and is owned and managed by the
Hong Kong International Theme
Parks. Wikipedia
Address: Lantau Island, Hong Kong
Area: 28 ha
Opened: September 12, 2005
Hours:
Closing soon · 10:30AM–9PM
Phone: +852 3550 3388
Owners: The Walt Disney
Company, Government of Hong Kong

6.  Victoria Peak is a
mountain in the
western half of Hong
Kong Island. It is
also known as
Mount Austin, and
locally as The Peak.
 Remote monastery
with a giant Buddha
statue offering
gardens, lookouts &
a vegetarian
restaurant

7.  Ocean Park Hong
Kong, commonly
known as Ocean Park,
is a marine mammal
park, oceanarium,
animal theme park and
amusement park,
situated in Wong Chuk
Hang and Nam Long
Shan in the Southern
District of Hong Kong.
 The Clock Tower is a
landmark in Hong Kong.
It is located on the
southern shore of Tsim
Sha Tsui, Kowloon. It is
the only remnant of the
original site of the
former Kowloon Station
on the Kowloon-Canton
Railway.

8.  Lantau Island, the largest of
Hong Kong's islands, lies at
the mouth of the Pearl River.
Its mountainous interior,
traversed by the 70km Lantau
Trail from Mui Wo (Silver Mine
Bay), includes 934m-high
Lantau Peak. Po Lin
Monastery is the site of the
bronze Tian Tan Buddha, a
34m-tall statue on a hilltop
reached by a long stairway.
 Tian Tan Buddha, also known
as the Big Buddha, is a large
bronze statue of Buddha
Shakyamuni, completed in
1993, and located at Ngong
Ping, Lantau Island, in Hong
Kong.

9. INVENTIONS IN HONGKONG
 .OLED (organic light-emitting diode)
 What do Samsung, Sony, LG and Mitsubishi
have in common? Other than having the
same goal of dominating the world market
with “Asian pride”, all of these companies
have actually been adopting the same
technology called OLED (organic light-
emitting diode). Which ironically explains the
second similarity between these companies:
the questionably short timespan of its
products.

10.  2.Nano-technology Anti-bacterial Face Mask
 Locals have long prided
themselves over the “Hong Kong
spirit”, often manifested in their
perseverance and ability to adapt
to all situations. And in this case,
the nano-technology face mask
is an incarnation of the latter.

11 years ago when SARS
terrorised the city, everyone were
forced to wear mask. Yet as
shielded as one might seem,
regular disposable masks
actually does not filter all
impurities from the air, let alone
the micrscopic viruses.

11.  3.SolSource Solar CookingLiving in a metropolis
for too long and you thought starting a fire is as
easy as a "twist and turn"? Introducing the
SolSource Solar Grill, which would not have existed
if that is really the case.
 Created by engineers from the Hong Kong
Company One Earth Designs Limited, the solar grill
concentrates the solar beam into one focal point,
thus heating up the cooking utensils. This shiny
satellite-looking cooking station weights only about
20 kg, and can heat up a litre of water within 10 to
15 minutes.

12.  4.Silverlit Nano Falcon toy
helicopter
 In Hong Kong, it’s rare for
things to be included in the
Guinness Book of World
Records, except maybe the
longest elevator, the longest
bridge, and well, the smallest
Disneyland.

But a toy company just
managed to do so. Hong Kong
toy industry giant Silverlit has
invented the World's smallest
infrared control helicopter --
Nano Falcon. It measures only
3.19 inches long by 2.00 inches
high and 0.88 inches wide. It
weighs in at only 11g.

13.  5.Cancer-curing Metal
Based DrugsThe word
“cancer” reeks of terror and
death, and that is true, for it
kills over 13000 people in
just a year, being one of the
major causes of mortality in
Hong Kong.

However, recently Hong
Kong has become the
centre in overseeing a
global research of inventing
a metal based drug that can
help cure cancer, with the
The University of Hong
Kong taking up the leading
role.

14. EDUCATION IN HONGKONG

15. HISTORY
 Education in Hong Kong is largely modelled
on that of the United Kingdom, particularly
the English system. It is overseen by the
Education Bureau and the Social Welfare
Department.
 Small village Chinese schools were observed by
the British missionaries when they arrived circa
1843.[3] Anthony Sweeting believes those small
village schools existed in Chek Chue (modern-
day town of Stanley), Shek Pai Wan, Heung Kong
Tsai (modern-dayAberdeen) and Wong Nai
Chong on Hong Kong Island, although proofs are
[4]

16.  One of the earliest schools with reliable records
was Li Ying College established in 1075 in
present-day New Territories.[5] By 1860 Hong
Kong had 20 village schools. Chinese who were
wealthy did not educate their children in Hong
Kong, instead they sent them to major Chinese
cities, such as Canton, for traditional Chinese
education.[5]
 The changes came with the arrival of
the British in 1841. At first Hong Kong's
education came
from Protestant and Catholicmissionaries who
provided social services. Italian missionaries
began to provide boy-only education to British
and Chinese youth in 1843.[6]

17.  By 1861 Frederick Stewart would become "The
Founder of Hong Kong Education" for integrating a
modern western-style education model into
the Colonial Hong Kong school system,.[7] In 1862, the
first government school, Queen's College (then
Government Central School) was set up, with Stewart
serving as the first Headmaster.

18.  One of the much contested debate was whether schools should
offer Vernacular education, teaching in Chinese at all.[4] Education
was considered a luxury for the elite and the rich. The first school
to open the floodgate of western medical practice to East Asia
was the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese. The London
Missionary Society and Sir James Cantlie started the Hong Kong
College of Medicine for Chinese in 1887 (although, the 'for
Chinese' was later dropped from the name).[8] In addition,
the London Missionary Society founded Ying Wa Girls' School in
1900. Belilios Public School was a girls' secondary school
founded in 1890 – the first government school in Hong Kong that
provided bilingual education in English and Chinese. The push
for Chinese education in a British system did not begin until the
rise of social awareness of the Chinese community following the
1919 May Fourth Movementand 1934 New Life Movement in
China.[4][5] Educating the poor did not become a priority until they
accounted for the majority of the population. Financial issues
were addressed in the 1970s.[9] A small group of South
Asian Hong Kongers marched through Centraldemanding more
schooling in the English language on 3 June 2007.[10] In the
2013/14 school year, there are 569 primary schools, 514
secondary day schools and 61 special schools.

19. SCHOOLING
 In the past, Hong Kong education was closely
modeled on the UK system. This is hardly surprising
since Hong Kong was administered by Britain from
1841 to 1997, when the former UK colony was
handed back to China. However, since 1997, the
education system taught in local schools has
undergone a series of changes. While some of these
changes have reflected different language of
instruction policies, there have also been changes to
the senior secondary curriculum. The new model,
brought in at the beginning of the 2009/10 academic
year, is now more in line with those found in China
and even the USA.

20. Kindergartens
Since 1997, there have been changes to a lot of
kindergartens as a way of professionalizing
them. Most of the changes have involved
minimum teaching qualifications for both
kindergarten teaching staff and principals. As the
government has also placed more emphasis on the
importance of early childhood education, the
curriculum in kindergarten has now been designed
to provide a sound foundation for students.

21. Primary Education
The majority of local Primary schools in Hong Kong
are Chinese medium of instruction and the primary
curriculum covers a wide range of subjects including
Social Studies, Science, Chinese, English,
Mathematics, Music, Arts and Physical Education.
Students are allocated to Secondary schools through
their performance in three examinations taken in
Primary 5 and Primary 6. Schools are extremely
competitive and parents naturally have a strong
preference for their child to be allocated to a top or
higher band school.

22.  Recently, primary school numbers have been
shrinking, causing the closure of some schools
and resulting in the need for some teacher
redundancies.
Class numbers are traditionally much higher in
Hong Kong than they are in Western
countries. An average class, in both primary
and secondary school could have over 35
students and it can be as many as 45. The
shrinking enrollments have seen a lot of debate
about smaller class sizes but so far the numbers
of students in a class have not been greatly
reduced.

23.  Secondary Education
The first year of secondary school, known as
Form or Secondary One, follows six years of
primary education. Forms 1 – 3 have
compulsory attendance and in junior secondary,
the learning is broader, without students
choosing specific study areas.
The majority of local secondary schools became
Chinese medium of instruction (CMI) after the
Handover in 1997. However, since then many
have gone back to an English medium of
instruction (EMI). In 2013, 112 out of 400
secondary schools were EMI.

24.  Students in Forms 4-6 now prepare for the HKDSE, the
examinations for which are held at the end of Form 6. There are
four core subjects – English, Mathematics, Chinese and Liberal
Studies. Students then choose two or three elective subjects from
a choice of 20. There are also some applied learning subjects,
modeled on the idea of the BTEC and six other modern foreign
languages which can also form part of the students’ choices.
International school students do not take local public
examinations. Once, the UKGCSE/A-levels were popular among
many of Hong Kong’s international schools but now
the International Baccalaureate (IB) is a much more common
programme. Some schools mix the two programmes, retaining
IGCSE for 16 year olds, while using the IB Diploma at the higher
secondary level. Many country-specific international schools
teach a syllabus from their own country. Students also might take
the SAT or IELTS in order to gain entry to an overseas university.

25.  Tertiary Education
Tertiary education is important in Hong Kong.
There are eight universities and several other
tertiary institutions without university status. All
the tertiary institutions offer a range of
programmes including undergraduate and
post-graduate degrees, as well as Associate
degrees and Higher Diplomas.

26.  The number of places available for undergraduate degrees
is substantially less than the number of students who
actually fulfill the entry requirements for general admission
to university. From the beginning of the academic year
2012, most courses were extended to four years, in line with
the government’s policy of 3 + 3 + 4 (three years of junior
secondary, followed by three years of senior secondary then
4 years of university). For students who fail to gain entrance
to a degree programme, studying an Associate degree or a
Higher diploma, which may articulate with a degree course
later on, is a popular option. It is also sometimes possible to
gain a course transfer form a successfully completed Higher
diploma or Associate degree into an overseas degree
programme with some credit transfer.
Of the Hong Kong universities, The University of Hong Kong
and the Chinese University of Hong Kong have the best
reputations. The Hong Kong University of Science and
Technology has been developing a strong name in the areas
of Technology and Business.

27. Adult Education
Life-long learning has become a popular catch cry from
the government and certainly taking a course seems to
be a common activity among the adult population. The
majority of the universities have schools which offer non-
degree, adult learning courses and there are a range of
other institutions as well, offering professional, general
education and interest courses. Language courses,
especially English, Mandarin and Japanese are
common, and many adults study as a means of
improving their prospects in the employment market. The
government has even established a scheme which
enables adult learners to apply for course fee
reimbursement for approved courses. There is also the
Open University of Hong Kong, run along similar lines to
the UK one, which gives many people opportunities to
study for a degree.

28. SCHOOL FACILITIES

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