Mandy ZhengThe principal of the Australian International School has resigned, sparking questions about whether the pandemic and the national security law have deterred expatriate educators from working in Hong Kong. And Bill McKeith, an Australian educator who recruited Hemphill for the SAR, said: "National security, privacy and other laws are increasingly impacting on the governance and operational actions of schools." "The status quo has been thrown upside down" in Hong Kong, he went on, and that could lead to more challenges for schools to operate in a foreign environment. The school on Norfolk Road, Kowloon Tong, was founded in 1995 and has over 1,100 pupils from kindergarten to secondary school. Hong Kong has, of course, long been a hotspot for expatriates, with about 690,000 foreigners living here in 2016.

Source: The Standard August 20, 2020 19:07 UTC