Nurturing gifted students: Hong Kong schools’ special programmes for brilliant young minds
【SCMP】Some children have a natural aptitude for art or music or perhaps tennis, and in the classroom environment it soon becomes clear which of them are academically gifted. Those talents may be evident in any number of ways: a facility for languages, speed in solving maths problems, or even a special fascination with a non-curricular subject like astronomy.
Within Hong Kong’s already competitive education system, class teachers do all they can to encourage and nurture this potential. But sometimes children just have an inbuilt urgency to learn more and move faster, exhibiting a near-insatiable appetite for new challenges, information and ideas.
Fortunately, a number of options are available offering just the kind of supplementary programmes these motivated learners need.
Update Date：2025-07-08