Interesting Article in Today's Guardian

Thoughts of my visit to see Professor Ho at the Chinese University of Hong Kong came to mind today when I read Hugh Muir's article in the Guardian entitled: "School success – the Chinese way"

A new study reveals that British Chinese people aged 16 and over are four times as likely to be full-time students as the wider population.

You can read the full article at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/oct/27/diverse-britain-school-success-chinese

• Hugh Muir
• Guardian, Wednesday 27 October 2010

Christine Yau's comments resonated very much with what I learnt during my trip to Hong Kong, as a Winston Churchill Travelling Fellow, where I met with Professor Sui Chu HO at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research shows that there is a strong relationship between 'At Home' parental involvement and student success. In this model, parents focus less on bringing about changes at school and focus more on providing a strong learning environment at home, value-added extra-curricular activites, books, computers and, most importantly, making sure that homework assignements are completed. There is a lot to be learnt from her research as well as from the research of Professor Joyce Epstein at John Hopkins University, another leading researcher in the field of Parental Involvement and its impact on students' success.