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School Budgeting Guide 2024-25: A Comprehensive Look

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Sep 27, 20232 min read

School Budgeting Guide 2024-25: A Comprehensive Look

The most comprehensive and accurate round-up of fees - accounting for debentures & levies for the purpose of budgeting. Updated for 23/24.

What’s right for my child? Shaping your child’s educational journey

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May 13, 20223 min read

What’s right for my child? Shaping your child’s educational journey

The pride and joy of parenthood are as unique to the parents as their children are diverse. Whilst we all happily agree that no two...

5 tips to help your children succeed in preschool

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Oct 13, 20214 min read

5 tips to help your children succeed in preschool

Sponsored Article Preschool can be a challenging and scary transition for both children and their parents. Children can struggle with the...

Why Montessori?And What Makes Guidepost Unique.

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Sep 27, 20217 min read

Why Montessori?And What Makes Guidepost Unique.

Guidepost Montessori offers your child an exceptionally personalized learning experience, meeting your child where they are, and guiding...

Diminishing diversity - the changing faces of Hong Kong International Schools

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Aug 21, 20213 min read

Diminishing diversity - the changing faces of Hong Kong International Schools

One of the apparent side effects of this year's unusual evens is that more places are available in Hong Kong's international schools. Why?

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Aug 19, 20214 min read

Why bother with Preschool?

Whereas school isn’t mandatory until 6, most children in Hong Kong begin their formal education at 2 years old, or 3 at the latest.

Forest Schools: What's All The Fuss About?

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Jun 2, 20215 min read

Forest Schools: What's All The Fuss About?

If there’s one thing you can rely on the education industry to excel at, it’s buzzwords. New phrases crop up all the time. Some stick,...

Delia School of Canada: Individualised Education Pathways that Open the Door to Global Success

TopSchoolsHK

Apr 23, 20213 min read

Delia School of Canada: Individualised Education Pathways that Open the Door to Global Success

#SponsoredPost One of the oldest international schools in Hong Kong, Delia School of Canada (DSC) welcomed its first students in 1986....

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Feb 12, 20213 min read

The Demise of the Corporate Debenture

As admissions experts, we believe that professional management of an application can usually substitute the need for an expensive corporate

TopSchoolsHK

Nov 30, 20202 min read

Hong Kong's Top Kindergartens

What are the top kindergartens in Hong Kong? What are the best kindergartens in Hong Kong? These are impossible questions to answer. Do you

Why choose to work with an Education Consultant?

TopSchoolsHK

Nov 4, 20202 min read

Why choose to work with an Education Consultant?

The most compelling reason to use an expert is to generate a result you could not have achieved alone.

How not to pay application/registration fees

TopSchoolsHK

Oct 29, 20203 min read

How not to pay application/registration fees

In Hong Kong, the whole process seems to set the parents up for failure. It is often, in contrast to the UK, a very negative experience.

Case Study: Invictus School - Recruitment, Admissions & Marketing

TopSchoolsHK

Oct 19, 20202 min read

Case Study: Invictus School - Recruitment, Admissions & Marketing

We consulted with the Head Office in Singapore extensively on all aspects of recruitment and marketing for this new school in Hong Kong.

Destination Services for Relocating Families

TopSchoolsHK

Oct 17, 20202 min read

Destination Services for Relocating Families

Full service relocation firms resort to the quickest and easiest placement, rather than the best.

Victoria: Why is it so popular? [UPDATED]

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Oct 13, 20203 min read

Victoria: Why is it so popular? [UPDATED]

VE is perceived as a good option if you are unsure about a local or an international school and that VEO children have the option of either.

Pushchair to Preschool: A Don't Panic Guide

TopSchoolsHK

Oct 5, 20202 min read

Pushchair to Preschool: A Don't Panic Guide

The notion of accepting applications from birth for international schools is also inherently flawed.

Baby blues: is it fair to take school enrolment applications from birth?

TopSchoolsHK

Oct 5, 20203 min read

Baby blues: is it fair to take school enrolment applications from birth?

Until recently, the market demand has enabled many schools to accept applications from birth. But most parents agree that this practice achi

Good Schools Guides – Kindergartens & International Schools 2022/2023

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Oct 1, 20201 min read

Good Schools Guides – Kindergartens & International Schools 2022/2023

We have produced two Good Schools Guides, in partnership with and published by South China Morning Post.

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Aug 29, 20201 min read

Why we don’t do hourly consultations

Time offers you no value. Parents often ask us for an hourly consulting, but buying more time, doesn’t necessarily lead to better results.

Back to School: Will Hong Kong’s Primary Students Be Playing Catch-Up?

TopSchoolsHK

Aug 8, 20205 min read

Back to School: Will Hong Kong’s Primary Students Be Playing Catch-Up?

Back at the end of 2019, if you’d told school principals that within a few weeks their students would be learning remotely, only interacting