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Hong Kong mum to launch a TripAdvisor-for-schools website called Whizpa

HONG KONG — To get into a university anywhere these days, it seems you need to have it all: Top marks, accolades across multiple activities, and a well-rounded personality to boot. In Hong Kong, this can be even tougher, with rigorous testing and credentials required even at kindergarten level.

Screengrab: Whizpa/Facebook

Screengrab: Whizpa/Facebook

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HONG KONG — To get into a university anywhere these days, it seems you need to have it all: Top marks, accolades across multiple activities, and a well-rounded personality to boot. In Hong Kong, this can be even tougher, with rigorous testing and credentials required even at kindergarten level.

Parents desperate not to let their children fall behind can often get lost in cyberspace, as they search for the best schools, classes and extracurricular activities.

Enter Whizpa, a bilingual website that will catalogue education providers in Hong Kong and allow parents to rate and review schools, athletics centres, art facilities, tutoring classes, even summer camps.

“Education in Hong Kong is clearly big business – there are tonnes of providers out there, and as a parent, it’s almost impossible to know every single one of them,” says Whizpa founder Jennifer Chin, a mother of three. “I just felt it was very stressful, trying to google every single centre in Hong Kong.”

Ms Chin surveyed her network of friends and friends-of-friends, and more than 60 per cent said they found it difficult to search for and compare learning centres, with most getting recommendations by word of mouth.

To be launched in late May or June, Whizpa will digitise these word-of-mouth reviews, giving seekers the “inside scoop” from other parents, according to Ms Chin. SCMP

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