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	Hong Kong International School - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Hong Kong International School (HKIS) is a private school in South Bay Close (near Repulse Bay), and Tai Tam, Hong Kong, China.
		Hong Kong International School also has a wide, extensive information technology program equipped with the latest technology and teachers who are fully capable of using that technology.
		At the High and Middle School levels, students have the opportunity to participate in a variety of sports activities such as swimming in the indoor heated pool, basketball, squash, badminton, table tennis, volleyball, sailing, rugby, basketball, soccer, and tennis.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hong_Kong_International_School (874 words)

	Hong Kong Academy Primary School - International Schools in Hong Kong - Hong Kong Schools
		Its mission it to provide an outstanding international education for children in the Hong Kong SAR by developing and nurturing intellectually curious, critically thinking, ethically-minded, self-assured students who achieve their full potential as individuals and as responsible members of the global community.
		The hallmarks of Hong Kong Academy (HKA) are a truly international, inquiry-based curriculum; small class sizes with high teacher-to-student ratios, special emphasis on Chinese culture and language; integration of information technology into all aspects of the curriculum and school life; and community service.
		Hong Kong Academy (HKA) is committed to recruiting non-native English speakers and other students across the spectrum of educational abilities and needs, to the extent of its capabilities and resources.
	www.english-schools.org /hong-kong/hong-kong-academy-primary-school.htm (445 words)

	Intercountry Adoption Hong Kong (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Hong Kong Social Welfare Department (SWD) statistics on adoptions indicate that the Social Welfare Department handled foreign 246 adoption applications in 2000/2001.
		HONG KONG ADOPTION PROCEDURES: The adoption process in Hong Kong begins with the prospective adoptive parents in Hong Kong submitting an application to the Director of the Social Welfare Department.
		CONSULATE GENERAL IN HONG KONG: Americans living or traveling abroad are encouraged to register with the nearest U.S. Embassy or Consulate through the State Department’s travel registration website, https://travelregistration.state.gov/, and to obtain updated information on travel and security within the country of travel.
	travel.state.gov /family/adoption_hong_kong.html (2702 words)

	China, Hong Kong: Hong Kong International School
		The Hong Kong International School is a private, Christian, coeducational day school, which offers an educational program from pre-primary through grade 12 for students of all nationalities and religious backgrounds.
		The School is fully accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges.
		The Middle School building includes 28 classrooms, a library-media center, a video technology lab, 6 science laboratories, music and art rooms, a full-sized air conditioned gymnasium, a Black Box performance theater, a cafeteria, an amphitheater setting for school assemblies, and office space.
	www.state.gov /m/a/os/1277.htm (550 words)

	Hong Kong International School Students Become First Global Village Team To Build in China* * *Team Works On Homes in ...
		HONG KONG, 9th April 2004: It was a historic event for Habitat for Humanity International.
		HFHI China staff members were on hand to greet the volunteers at Kunming international airport when they touched down after their two-hour flight from Hong Kong.
		For the HKIS students, who mainly enjoy affluent living conditions in Hong Kong, it was a good chance to see and experience life in the more remote rural areas of China.
	www.habitat.org /ap/news/2004/04_09_2004_gv_trip_china.aspx (819 words)

	Hong Kong Welcomes Habitat * * * Fundraising Plus Initiative to Help Elderly within Hong Kong -- Habitat for Humanity ...
		HONG KONG, 18th May, 2005: Hong Kong’s business and diplomatic community gave a warm welcome to Habitat with a cocktail party at the Shangri La Hotel last week, hosted by HFH Hong Kong’s benefit committee.
		Darwin Chen, chairman of the newly-created HFH Hong Kong board of directors, told the 100 guests that Habitat may explore shelter-related activities for the elderly in the territory.
		In addition to fundraising, members of the HFH Hong Kong benefit committee are hoping to participate in a build this summer.
	www.habitat.org /ap/news/2005/05_18_2005_hong_kong_benefit.aspx?print=true (350 words)

	AsiaMedia :: HONG KONG: School recalls cartoon of Prophet
		Students at Hong Kong International School have been asked to cut out and return to teachers a controversial cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed that was reprinted in the school yearbook.
		The Tai Tam school devoted 20 minutes of the gathering to the debacle that saw the cartoon -- whose publication in a Danish newspaper sparked outrage and violence earlier this year -- reprinted.
		School leaders met Mr Arshad at the weekend as part of an effort to explain the "very bad slip" to the Muslim community, and initially he indicated he would visit the school.
	www.asiamedia.ucla.edu /article-eastasia.asp?parentid=47621 (536 words)

	AsiaMedia :: HONG KONG: Prophet cartoon leaves top school red-faced
		Hong Kong International School has been forced to apologise to the city's Muslim community after it distributed hundreds of yearbooks carrying the controversial cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed that sparked worldwide anger earlier this year.
		The school has held off on distributing the remainder of the yearbooks to its primary students.
		HONG KONG: 50,000 expected at cartoon protest rally
	www.asiamedia.ucla.edu /article-eastasia.asp?parentid=47487 (475 words)

	CIS Directory
		The Yew Chung International Primary and Secondary Schools are part of the Yew Chung Education Foundation, a non-profit Christian organisation.
		It is adapted to suit an international city and a mobile population such as in Hong Kong.
		The school encourages parents' active participation in their children's education, and maintains regular contact through newsletters, parent/teacher interviews and other events.
	www.cois.org /directory/Member_Type_Redirect.asp?School_ID=YEWHON (410 words)

	International -- Spotlight on Hong Kong
		Some parents can't wait for the reforms and are enrolling their children in Hong Kong's 40 international schools, which offer broader curriculums and more emphasis on discussion and creativity.
		The 24,000 children attending the international schools are only 3% of Hong Kong's total student body, but the growth rate is astonishing, with one-third of the schools established just in the past decade.
		Island School Principal David James notes that when local parents visit his school, they are often shocked by the amount of classroom interaction between students and teachers.
	www.businessweek.com /2000/00_33/c3694189.htm (673 words)

	Hong Kong - Events (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In a school where Thong admits many of the students already know how to make a spread sheet or download a file by FTP before they are ever asked to do so by their teachers, technology is taken for granted.
		The electronic community taking shape at the school not only allows students and teachers to communicate with each other better, but also helps parents play a more active role in their children’s education.
		The future of education at Hong Kong International School is most definitely a connected one.
	www.novell.com /offices/asiapac/hk/success/hkis.html (1139 words)

	Northfield Mount Hermon : hkis release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Hong Kong International School (HKIS) is pleased to announce that Richard W. Mueller will take over as its Head of School this summer.
		His leadership style emphasized the importance of collaboration within the school community and helped to lead the school through a strategic planning process that established a new vision for the 125-year old school.
		He was the United States Consul General in Hong Kong from 1993-1996 during the formative period leading up to Hong Kong’s reversion to China.
	www.nmhschool.org /about/future/updates/hkis_release.php (471 words)

	Hong Lok Yuen International School of The New Territories, Hong Kong
		Hong Lok Yuen International School of The New Territories, Hong Kong
		Hong Lok Yuen International School is an independent primary school and kindergarten, providing quality English education in a multi-cultural environment.
		It was established over twenty years ago to serve expatriates and local children from Hong Lok Yuen and all other areas in the New Territories of Hong Kong.
	www.hlyis.edu.hk (59 words)

	International Schools in Hong Kong - Hong Kong Schools
		The climate in Hong Kong is subtropical with cool and mild winters and hot and humid summers.
		Although predominantly Chinese, Hong Kong also is home to many Americans, Europeans, Australians and a multitude of other nationalities.
		The international schools in Hong Kong cater for the children of business men from the west, as well as diplomatic staff and people from the local commnity.
	www.english-schools.org /hong-kong (274 words)

	International Schools (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In keeping with Hong Kong's international character, a number of schools offer curricula designed to meet the needs of particular cultural or linguistic groups.
		The English Schools Foundation (ESF) operates 9 primary schools and 5 secondary schools for children whose first language is English, and a special education school for English-speaking students with moderate to severe learning difficulties.
		The education provided is similar in content and method to that available in schools in Britain, and leads to the British public examinations.
	www.scils.rutgers.edu /~lfung/intsch.html (120 words)

	HUC-JIR > News & Publications > HUC-JIR News > Press Release
		HKIS, a private Christian school, founded by educators of the Lutheran tradition and currently serving a diverse religious and cultural student body, invited the two scholars as part of their Charles W Dull Visiting Scholar Series.
		This same effort is also being undertaken by Jewish schools that seek to celebrate their Judaism while teaching pluralism and is a great educational challenge for every religious tradition.
		Hong Kong International School (HKIS) is a 2,500 pupil private Christian school.
	www.huc.edu /newspubs/pressroom/2003/lee.shtml (676 words)

	Hong Kong International Schools / Universities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The schools enroll from a geographical catchment area depending on the area of residence -- although the secondary schools on Hong Kong island are oversubscribed in certain age-groups and children may have to be referred to a school with vacancies.
		The International School of Macao is a non-profit and non-denominational school offering instruction in English and using a Canadian (Alberta) curriculum.
		Parents are encouraged to contact the School or submit an application form to reserve a place.
	moveandstay.com /hongkong/guide_international_schools_universities.asp (472 words)

	Littleford & Associates - Non profit Governance, Compensation and Strategic Planning - GOVERNANCE AND TRANSITION: ...
		Joseph High School in Trumbull, Fairfield County, Connecticut is a Catholic, coeducational / college preparatory school founded in 1962 with a current enrollment of 850 and a staff of 70.
		To further its vision of being the premier college preparatory school in Southern Connecticut, St. Joseph's seeks a President who is a practicing Roman Catholic and possesses the administrative, financial management and development skills necessary to advance the School's strategic plan.
		The mission of the Hong Kong International School is "to dedicate our minds to inquiry, our hearts to compassion, (and) our lives to service and global understanding." The School offers an excellent American-style education combined with a strong commitment to Chinese language instruction and enriched by its multicultural student body and faculty.
	www.jlittleford.com /searches.html (627 words)

	SDSU - CES \| International Schools \| Hong Kong International School
		Hong Kong International School staff can register for sponsored programs that have been approved for SDSU credit.
		Courses numbered at the 900 level are not designed to be applicable to graduate programs at SDSU but, like all transferable credit may, with approval from the receiving institution, be applicable to degrees at that institution.
		We are very pleased to announce that all students enrolled in SDSU courses are now able to access their grades online and print out unofficial copies of their transcripts.
	www.ces.sdsu.edu /hkis.html (329 words)

	Yew Chung International School of Hong Kong
		The International Baccalaureate Programme is a world recognized curriculum encouraging students to be active learners, well-rounded individuals and engaged world citizens.
		On the other hand, Yew Chung International School provides support programmes to provide the continued academic and personal growth of a student inside and outside the classroom.
		Such international activity reflects the high standard we have achieved releasing a new momentum in the development of Yew Chung.
	www.newsweekshowcase.com /international-schools-hong-kong/yew-chung-school-hongkong.php (548 words)

	International Education - Best International Schools: Hong Kong
		Long established as a home to expatriates and without question some of the best International Schools in the Asia region can be found in Hong Kong.
		The school is in the forefront of a worldwide move away from using any national curriculum to an international curriculum, from parochial mindsets to world mindedness, from local perspectives to international perspectives and from languages as simply linguistic structures to languages as channels for the absorption of cultures.
		We define an international education by what goes on inside a student - It is about the internal transformation of a child by the international school's culture created by the co-teaching and multicultural learning environment, the Co-Principals administration, admission, the overall content and process which links to the character formation of a child.
	www.newsweekshowcase.com /international-schools-hong-kong (228 words)

	CAIS - Content
		Amongst the schools in Hong Kong this Canadian curriculum Christian international school excels in providing a high quality academic program in a Christian school environment.
		As an English language school every attempt is made to ensure native speaker or near native speaker competency in English for every student.
		This international school is conveniently located in Kowloon City, Hong Kong.
	www.cais.edu.hk (246 words)

	Hong Kong International Schools (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Children from as many as 40 different nationalities attend ESF schools which prepare pupils for entrance to universities and colleges world-wide and not just the U.K. Hong Kong Island
		The International School of Macao is a non-profit and non-denominational school offering instruction in English and using a Canadian curriculum.
		Enrolment enquiries are currently being taken for the 2004-2005 school year and future years.
	www.moveandstay.com /hongkong/guide_international_schools.asp (382 words)

	HONG KONG
		Citybus Hong Kong and Kowloon Ferry Kowloon-Canton Railway
		From being a fishing village Hong Kong became a British colony in 1842.
		All international spirits, wine, beer and juices as well as soft drinks are available.
	www.tripworld.biz /hongkong.htm (449 words)

	Hong Kong International Schools - International School of Hong Kong (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Hong Kong International Schools - International School of Hong Kong HK Vote Against Proposed Sales Tax On Education Spending
		Five secondary schools, ten primary schools, two kindergartens and a special school.
		There are over 55 different nationalities in the Foundation's schools.
	9n.nu /hong-kong/international-schools/index.htm (106 words)

	German Swiss International School (德瑞國際學校)
		DE/EN The German Swiss International School Hong Kong (GSIS) was established in 1969 by German Swiss families who were looking for a bilingual German-English education in an international setting.
		From these early beginnings, GSIS has grown into one of the leading international schools in Hong Kong.
		The school campus is strategically located in the picturesque and prestigious setting of The Peak, Hong Kong, and incorporates three versatile and extensively modernized buildings.
	mygsis.gsis.edu.hk (224 words)

	The Landmark Game '98-Hong Kong International #2
		M.S. #2 is a double class of 7th graders in the Middle School of Hong Kong International School.
		The Hong Kong International School The Hong Kong International School in an international school using the American style of teaching.
		THe middle school is the home of the sixth to eigth graders at HKIS.
	www.kidlink.org /KIDPROJ/Landmark98/hkis2.html (305 words)

	News Releases : Valparaiso University
		The administrator of an international school with experience teaching on the middle school and high school levels has been named chair of the Department of Education at Valparaiso University.
		Dr. Westrick joined Hong Kong International School as a junior high French teacher in 1978 and later taught on the high school level before being appointed assistant high school principal for academics.
		She is a member of the Governing Council of the Hong Kong Institute of Education and has made presentations at workshops and conferences in Hong Kong and the United States.
	www.valpo.edu /news/index.php?action=display&newsid=1426 (252 words)

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