Early exit rates at elite Hong Kong secondary schools drop sharply
February 05, 2025
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The number of students withdrawing early from Hong Kong’s elite and popular secondary schools fell sharply in the last academic year, as most recorded levels that were even lower than before the city’s emigration wave.
The Post reviewed the annual reports of 14 top schools and found the withdrawal rates had declined for the second year in a row. The figures emerged just weeks after the UK said the number of fresh applications for a bespoke immigration pathway for Hongkongers fell to 5,102 in the third quarter of this year.
Applications for the British National (Overseas) Visa scheme have fallen from a peak of more than 30,000 in each of the first two quarters of 2021.
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