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Read More »Hong Kong principals ask government to plug teaching brain drain
Heads appeal to city leader John Lee for government survey to help find way to stem teacher losses from classrooms. Source link
Read More »Hong Kong schools and kindergartens to receive copies of speech by Xi Jinping
Education Bureau to make copies of Xi’s handover speech available to collect from Tuesday, marking first time a state leader’s address will be given to teachers for study. Source link
Read More »Teacher exodus leaves Hong Kong schools scrambling to fill vacancies
Education Bureau down plays the impact, but schools feel the absence of a record number of teachers who have quit since 2019 social unrest. Source link
Read More »‘Unreasonable’: Japanese girl removed from class for plucking her eyebrows
A 14-year-old student in Fukuoka Prefecture was ordered to study entirely on her own for three days after teachers concluded she breached school policy by trimming her eyebrows. Source link
Read More »Integrate elderly into Hong Kong’s workforce to ease brain drain’s effects
Sustaining Hong Kong’s workforce and economic engine requires re-evaluating our traditional approach to retirement. Empowering retirees and older workers, and bolstering their skills, will help Hong Kong seize the opportunities created by longer life expectancy. Source link
Read More »Jill Biden visits Ukrainian refugees, calls them ‘amazingly strong’
United States first lady met the Ukrainian women on a tour of Romania and Slovakia to see US servicemen deployed in the countries; Despite their ordeal, the women helped fellow refugees. Source link
Read More »‘Like Squid Game’: viral video of US teachers scrambling for dollar bills draws outrage
A video of US teachers scooping dollar bills into their shirts on the ice at a hockey rink during a Saturday event has gone viral, with critics on social media calling the contest cruel and dystopian.The event, dubbed Dash for Cash, involved 10 teachers in the Sioux Falls, South Dakota, …
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