English Education in Hong Kong: Now and in the Future

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Alfred Tsang received an MPhil degree from Faculty of English, University of Cambridge. He is currently Lecturer at the Center for Language Education, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He teaches Academic English courses with a focus on Humanities and Social Sciences, at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Alfred is committed to researching into issues related to language, education and society. His column, Be Anglophonic, appears on The Hong Kong Economic Journal Monthly, where he writes about English language and literature, as well as language teaching and learning.

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Paul Sze’s professional career has centred around English Language education. He was formerly a secondary school teacher, a schools inspector with the Education Bureau of the HK Government, a lecturer at Northcote College of Education, and a senior lecturer of the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is now an Honorary Professional Consultant of the Department. Dr Sze is currently teaching ELT methodology courses on the MA ELT and PGDE programmes at CUHK. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Linguists.

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Mr. Richard Eng obtained his master’s degree in Applied Linguistics at the University of Hong Kong. He is now pursuing a doctoral degree at the same university. His area of interest is in Second Language Writing. Mr. Eng has been teaching English to upper secondary students in Hong Kong for over 30 years and has also written a number of reference books on English grammar and skill-building for local public examinations such as the HKDSE and the now defunct HKALE. His teaching methodology has attracted the attention of media outlets such as BBC, CNN, Agence France-Presse, and Asiaweek.

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Managing Director of Britannia StudyLink, an experienced education consultant and columnist for various Hong Kong media. He was born in Hong Kong and went to the UK at the age of nine and spent eight years at Gresham’s Preparatory School in Norfolk. Then, he progressed smoothly through the British education system, ending up at the University of Nottingham with a degree in Economics and completing his postgraduate studies at the University of Warwick.

Samuel co-founded Britannia StudyLink in 2012 with an aim to transform Hong Kong’s overseas education consultancy market. He introduced UKiset to Hong Kong families in 2014 and Atom Learning in 2020. By the end of 2018, every 1 in 3 Hong Kong students studying at a UK Independent School had come through Britannia.