Anissa Chan Wong Lai Kuen () is a Hong Kong

educator A teacher, also called a schoolteacher or formally an educator, is a person who helps students to acquire knowledge, competence, or virtue, via the practice of teaching. ''Informally'' the role of teacher may be taken on by anyone (e.g. whe ...

. She served as principal of

St. Paul's Co-educational College St. Paul's Co-educational College (), (often abbreviated as St. Paul's, St. Paul's Co-ed., Co-ed. or SPCC) is an Anglican secondary school located at 33 MacDonnell Road, Mid-Levels, Hong Kong. Founded in 1915, it was a girls-only college un ...

and is Chair of the Task Force on Review of School Curriculum of the Hong Kong Government.

Education

In 1980, Chan earned her bachelor's degree in science from the University of Hong Kong. She earned her master's degree in education from the University of London in 1985 and her Ph.D. in education from Monash University in 1993.

Career

Chan was a chemistry teacher at Ying Wa Girls' School. Then, she became the principal of

SKH Bishop Mok Sau Tseng Secondary School SKH Bishop Mok Sau Tseng Secondary School (Chinese language, Traditional Chinese: 聖公會莫壽增會督中學) is a co-educational secondary school in Hong Kong, founded by a group of Christians in 1975, named after the Bishop Mok Sau Tseng o ...

for eleven years, subsequently serving as a principal at

from 2004 to 2017. During her tenure at St. Paul's Co-educational College, she made several reforms to the school, including introducing a Rites of Passage programme in

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, Students' Activities Week and the International Baccalaureate curriculum for senior form students. After her retirement, she was invited by the government to chair the Task Force on Review of School Curriculum. She has discussed proposals to reform the Liberal Studies curriculum of the Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education (HKDSE), by replacing the scale of seven levels from Level 1 to Level 5** with pass/fail. She is a member of the prize selection panel of the Lui Che Woo Prize. She was named an honorary fellow at the Education University of Hong Kong in recognition of her contributions to education.

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St. Paul's Co-educational College
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