Secretary for Education Christine Choi says more flexibility is possible Hong Kong is considering letting more junior ...

An earlier study had raised doubts about the effectiveness of learning English in the first grade. Now, researchers have observed that it improves language performance over an extended period of time.

Seven years later, children who start learning English in the first grade achieve poorer results in this subject than children whose first English lesson isn’t until the third grade. The researchers ...

IMAGINE having a virtual teaching assistant that tracks student progress, provides instant feedback, and offers personalised practice exercises tailored to each learner’s needs. This isn’t the future; ...

To boost students’ English proficiency, public high schools in Tokyo began offering one-on-one online lessons with tutors from the Philippines who are fluent in the language. The program covers all ...

THE headline for today’s column appeared in the Daily Observer (March 24) over Nadine Wilson’s story about an agreement between Jamaica and Britain under which experts from the British Council will ...