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School inspections are a funny business. They sit on an obstinate paradox which makes it difficult to have confidence in the results. An experienced observer can glean quite a lot about a school from walking the corridors: are the students cheerful and well-behaved; what is on the walls? Our observer can gather more from looking at documents: are the teachers planning and conferring, do they attend development courses, are they well qualified for what they are doing? But really if you want to evaluate what is going on you need to visit the place where education actually happens: the classroom....
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Months of poor business forced Hongkonger Emma and her husband Wai to close one of their Japanese omakase restaurants in February, despite its prime location in Causeway Bay. With their lease not yet expired, the pair swiftly transitioned to fast-food-style chicken chops costing less than HK$100 per meal. The up-market omakase – typically priced around HK$1,000 per person – just could no longer generate enough income, they told HKFP. The bold move may have saved them from joining a wave of shops and restaurants which have closed down in recent months. Shutters and rental posters have become hi...
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By Lina Vyas The integrity and value of this year’s International Baccalaureate (IB) exams have been called into question due to inaction over controversial leaked papers. The results of these examinations decide the future of many young graduates, and their dedication and hard-earned achievements have been overshadowed by reports of papers being shared online. The disregard for such an issue has left students feeling betrayed and has shattered their trust in a prestigious examination system, one that should be reliable and impartial. The leaks have had a significant impact on students’ perfor...
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Over 30 students were found to have used forged degree credentials and other documents to enrol in master’s programmes at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) Business School. In a statement sent to HKFP on Friday, HKU Business School said it had in May launched a probe into the credentials of all students currently enrolled in master’s programmes after finding out that some had hired agents to produce fake documents to secure admission. The school said the police had started investigating the incidents, but as the agents involved in the forgeries were believed to be located in mainland China and...
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The Hong Kong government has selected a new chief for the Social Workers Registration Board, two days after the opposition-free legislature passed a bill that gave government appointees a majority in the licensing body. Chief Executive John Lee on Friday appointed solicitor Herman Hui as the new chairperson of the board that is tasked with issuing qualifications for the city’s social workers. He and other newly appointed members will serve on the board for three years from Friday. Hui is the vice-chairperson of the Hong Kong Social Service Professional Alliance of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau...
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Hong Kong’s opposition-free legislature has passed a bill that gives government appointees a majority in the city’s social workers’ licensing body, a move that a top official said would help “protect the public’s interests and safeguard national security.” Lawmakers in the “patriots-only” Legislative Council echoed their support for the bill in a meeting on Wednesday. They said the amendments to the Social Workers Registration Board, which is tasked with issuing qualifications for social workers, would help the body “get back onto the right track.” Tik Chi-yuen, who represents the social welfa...
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The Google Translate app has been expanded to include Cantonese, thanks to generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) advancements. In 2022, Google began using Zero-Shot Machine Translation to expand its pool of supported languages. The machine learning model learns to translate into another language without ever seeing an example, Google said in a Thursday blog post. Now it is using AI to expand the number of supported languages. It added 110 new languages this week, in its largest-ever expansion, thanks to its PaLM 2 large language model. Users of the app may now translate between Cantonese – s...
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Throughout a near-decade of publishing, HKFP has weaved its way through non-stop financial, political and industry turbulence whilst cynics have said “give it a year.” But Hong Kong journalists are a stubborn and dedicated bunch, and our newsroom has expanded, invested and continually reinvented itself between protests, a pandemic, court reporting and the post-security law era. Our profession – after all – is a vocation, and the only one which is protected, and baked into, constitutions across the world. Our continued work in Hong Kong relies on supporters – many of whom directly powered our n...
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It’s early Sunday afternoon and Angelo*, a welder from the Philippines, sings Robbie Williams’ song Angels at the top of his lungs inside a flat he shares with fellow migrant workers in Sosnowiec, a Polish city of some 190,000 residents long known for its mining and steel production. In the background, there is the clattering of cutlery as another Filipino man chops onions and throws them into a large pot with pork, amid occasional giggles from his young daughter. More than 6,000 miles away, in the Philippines, she is following her father’s steps via a video call on a mobile phone balanced on ...
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The number of elderly Hongkongers taken to hospital has risen by 20 per cent within a week amid persistently high temperatures, a senior citizens’ charity has said. The Senior Citizen Home Safety Association (SCHSA) and the Hong Kong Observatory held a joint press conference on Thursday to warn residents, and in particular older members of the public, of “extremely hot” weather expected this summer. Temperatures soared to 34.4 degrees Celsius in Tsim Sha Tsui on Thursday, making it the hottest day of the year so far, as the Very Hot Weather Warning remained in force for a seventh consecutive d...
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