Education in Hong Kong | Jennifer Ma | TEDxYouth@DBSHK

Jennifer talks about her personal experience in Hong Kong's education sector. Jennifer Ma attended top schools, St. Paul’s Co-educational College in Hong Kong and Benenden School in UK, before graduating from the University of Oxford with First Class Honours in Economics and Management. Jennifer achieved her Masters in Education at the University of Hong Kong and is the co-author of the Best Seller “Boarding Schools: All You Need To Know”. Jennifer is a Benenden School Trustee, China Oxford Scholarship Fund Panelist, and is part of the University of Oxford Pembroke College Ossulston Circle.
At ARCH, Jennifer is responsible for the development of enrichment programs. She leads the UK and HK consultation teams which specialize in applications for Oxbridge and professional subjects including Medicine, Law, Architecture and beyond; achieving impressive record breaking results year on year.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

[@rayngmelb]

She had just described exactly what is wrong with the Hong Kong Education System.

[@KASA852]

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[@joema54]

The speaker is no doubt very bright and smart. But if you want to follow the same path with the speaker, your parents have to have the right connection to get you into one of the few right kindergartens. Then they have to be rich enough to send you to a boarding school in UK which costs US$50~60K a year. Upward social mobility in Hong Kong is more difficult than 20 years ago.

[@lepetitchat123]

J M 成功靠父幹

[@QTPie]

Kindness....is definitely needed in Hong Kong, and that is vastly missing in the education curriculum in Hong Kong!

[@delavan9141]

While in college trying to figure out what I wanted to do, I asked an engineering professor what an engineer actually does, and he couldn't tell me.

[@dorothyhoyeelee3483]

so true

[@arturo2819]

Real "innovation" , greetings from Mexico

[@kumarmatis3635]

education system is hopeless and has become a business in HK.....also worldwide......skills are more important than degrees

[@isaiah5209]

Hong Kong’s education system needs reform, proposing (1️⃣) Learning China History a must (2️⃣) Prohibit teachers from self-developing teaching materials for Liberal Studies (3️⃣) Adopting a standardized syllabus for Liberal Studies (4️⃣) Learning about the ‘real’ China (5️⃣) teaching about morality and values. We are so misinformed right now.

[@focusedfox7167]

lol .

[@delavan9141]

You are not clear what you're saying. You think those 5 elements are what is actually needed? They will make you LESS misinformed? Thoses proposals are pure communist propaganda.

[@AlvinCwk]

@@delavan9141 he is being sacastic

[@ZzZz-py3nb]

She made it all wrong. Education is not about getting to an elite college. It’s about encouraging the students to explore and discover. What she did is really no more than a coach unearthing a talented soccer player in a remote village. Her pretense of an educator makes me vomit.

[@leeforlazy]

She has opened a learning center in hk that is specifically made for the richie richie and charging a high price. I dont think she is any close to being a real educator...well i would say her advice is practical and useful but honestly that is not what an educator should be..... But i believe anyone who wants to a real educator, they will be working in the public sector...