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Private Tutorial Schools in Hong Kong: An Examination of the Perceptions of Public Examination Re-Takers
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Coniam, David – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2014
This article reports a case study of students attending a fee-paying private tutorial school in Hong Kong in 2009-2010. They were retaking the Year 11 English language public examination, attempting to improve grades obtained in 2008-2009. The mainly qualitative study extends an earlier quantitative study (Coniam Recent developments in English…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Private Education, Tutorial Programs, Case Studies