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Richard Eng (born 1964) is an English tutor and entrepreneur based in Hong Kong. [1] He founded Beacon College in Hong Kong, [ 2 ] and is considered the first celebrity tutor in Hong Kong. [ 3 ]
Snapask was founded by Timothy Yu [3] in January 2015. [1] With its headquarters in Hong Kong, it expanded to Taiwan and Singapore in the year 2015. [4] [5]In 2016, January, Snapask launched a new version Snapask 3.0, that was said to have better optimization with respect to the student-tutor matching mechanism to induce faster responses.
Beacon College Ltd., doing business as Beacon College, is a cram school in Hong Kong. It was founded in 1989 by June Leung, Christine Ng and Richard Eng in Yuen Long . The school provides secondary tutorial classes for students sitting for the Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education , day-time secondary courses, pre-education courses and life ...
The site allows students to find online teachers for 1-on-1 tutoring, and teachers to earn money as freelance tutors. [3] italki is headquartered in Hong Kong, China. One can choose online language lessons taught by a professional teacher, who provides structured learning plans, or a community tutor. [4]
The schools apply a fandom approach to promote tutors, who dress fashionably and are given nicknames like "the Godfather of Science," "Brand-A tutor", "Super tutor" or the "Queen of English." [ 4 ] They can be seen on billboards, full-page newspaper ads and TV screens in railway stations or on buses.
The founder and major shareholder of Modern Education Group is Ken Ng Kam-Lun, who teaches English in Modern Education. In 2009, optimistic that the HK government's education reforms would lead to double-digit growth, it was rumoured that Modern Education, which then had 17 centres, sought to raise HK$800 million to increase the number of tuition centres.
Hong Kong Virtual University program was the first runner up in the Hybrid Learning Category of the Wharton-QS Stars Awards. The Chemists Online program also won the Natural Sciences Award. The Wharton School and QS recognize HKVU as “an outstanding contribution to innovation in learning".
The programmes are closely tied with the curriculum devised by Hong Kong Government.Most of programmes are in the Cantonese language.In the early days, it covered the primary subjects of Chinese language, English language and Mathematics, and the secondary subjects Social Studies, Health Education (absent in secondary school) and Nature (later renamed to Science).