ACADEMIC ASIA

Welcome

Hong Kong is starting to OPEN UPAGAIN

OPTIMISM FOR 2023

Iam delighted to be able to write to you in a much more positive way – we are all, at last, starting to think about being able to travel again now that the quarantine periods and restrictions that we have all lived with for the last two years because of COVID are being reduced.

Indeed, at the time of writing, we are expecting there to be further reductions in the not too distant future.

UK boarding school representatives cannot wait to start travelling again to meet with their international families and alumni around the world – for many it is nearly three years

since they last boarded a plane. As we start another academic year, here at Academic Asia we have processed a good volume of applications for 2023 and beyond, and this is a reassuring indication that many Hong Kong families still look to the UK when planning their children’s education. With restrictions continuing to ease, we will need to wait and see if this makes any di erence to reported COVID cases over the coming months and whether the Hong Kong Government will go back to tighter restrictions if the number of confi rmed cases were to increase over the winter.

In the last education guide, we started our series of articles highlighting the choices that Hong Kong families have with regard to the type of school they are considering for their children – single sex or coeducation – and we had a very interesting article from the Headmaster of boys-only Bedford School, Mr James Hodgson. In this edition, we are going to highlight coeducation and I am delighted to introduce Mr Michael Punt, the new Head of Bromsgrove School which is a coeducational school in the

Midlands. Mr Punt took up his new position at Bromsgrove this term, having previously been the Headmaster at Chigwell School in Essex.

I hope you enjoy Mr Punt’s article and here’s to a happy, healthy and successful academic year for all young people around the world. with regard to the type of we had a very interesting

“UK BOARDING SCHOOL REPRESENTATIVES CANNOT WAIT TO START TRAVELLING AGAIN AND MEET THEIR INTERNATIONAL FAMILIES”

Battie Fung

MANAGING DIRECTOR ACADEMIC ASIA