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Strong minds, weak backs
Recently we’ve talked about the push for healthier students in the form of better school meals. But this isn’t the only challenge to children’s health. Increasingly paediatricians are warning about...
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Get moving!
Any working adult knows how hard it is to fit exercise into the schedule. But it can be just as tough for kids. After all, there’s so much emphasis on academics and mental improvement these days. It...
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Troubling signs for mental health support in Hong Kong schools
Sometimes it’s hard for adults to remember how stressful it is to be a child. We look back nostalgically on the adolescent years, forgetting the constant pressure to succeed in school, sports and...
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IB: Gotta Get Creative!
Conversations about the IB programme tend to revolve around the academic requirements. It’s not hard to understand why: the IB is often promoted as preparation for university, and for most people that...
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Hong Kong students making good progress
Hong Kong’s secondary-school students have a lot to be proud of, after the results of the latest PISA showed that they are among the best in the world in reading, math and science. The PISA is an...
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4 teachers transforming classrooms with technology
There’s an age-old challenge to teaching. We are products of the past, but we have to train students to deal with the future. These days, that means understanding and using technology. In an...
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3 chances for IB students to expand their horizons in 2014
It can be easy to forget the “international” in “International Baccalaureate”. But the IB’s cosmopolitan nature is one of its strengths. And few things display that worldliness like the IB World...
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4 groups that Hong Kong’s schools are letting down
Hong Kong’s schools are the subject of admiration in many countries. But there’s still room for improvement. Even in a relatively small community like ours there are groups of students who are not...
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The joys of coding
Pick up your phone. Turn on the screen. Check your email, play some games. Pretty easy, huh? You’re totally in command of your technological world. But how does it all work? You may have a basic idea....
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Learning about learning: a brief introduction to Theory of Knowledge
Statue of Aristotle, University of Thessaloniki Hong Kong students are on summer break, and like all of us they may be tempted to kick back and forget about studying until school starts again. But...
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