22°16′0″N114°14′24″E / 22.26667°N 114.24000°E /22.26667; 114.24000
| Islamic Kasim Tuet Memorial College | |
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22 Tsui Wan Street, Chai Wan Hong Kong | |
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| Motto | 博學愛群 (Prolific, Academic, Affectionate, and Co-operative) |
| Religious affiliation | Islam |
| Established | 1970 |
| Principal | Ho Sau Yin Zareenah[1] |
| Website | Official website |
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| Traditional Chinese | 伊斯蘭脫維善紀念中學 | ||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 伊斯兰脱维善纪念中学 | ||||||||||||
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| Islamic English College | |||||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 伊斯蘭英文中學 | ||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 伊斯兰英文中学 | ||||||||||||
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Islamic Kasim Tuet Memorial College (IKTMC) is asecondary school inChai Wan,Hong Kong. It is named afterKasim Tuet, aHui Muslim who played a major role in the development of Chinese Muslim education in the city. Formerly known as the Islamic College, it is the only Islamic secondary school aided by theHong Kong Education Bureau (EDB).[2]
Founded in 1970 as Islamic College, the school was formally renamed Islamic Kasim Tuet Memorial College in 1997. It is founded and sponsored by theChinese Muslim Cultural and Fraternal Association.[3] The school motto is composed of four key Chinese characters: Prolific, Academic, Affectionate, and Cooperative, which represent the fraternal nature and peace-loving spirit of Islamic teachings.[4]
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The school has 6 grades, namely Secondary 1 to Secondary 6 (S1-S6). The S1-S3 curriculum includes the 8 key learning areas as introduced by EDB, namely:
The school implements the New Secondary School Curriculum at Secondary 4. Apart from the 4 core subjects (i.e. Chinese Language, English Language, Mathematics, and Citizenship & Social Development), students should choose to study 3 more elective subjects.
At present, students in S1-S6 are taught according to theHKDSE syllabuses and helped to prepare for theHong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education.
Special arrangements are made and school-based curriculum is utilized for non-Chinese students, who will sit for theIGCSE andGCE Chinese Language examination conducted in Hong Kong.
The College has a site area of 6,900 sq m. The 7-storey building is endowed with spacious playgrounds and open areas. There are 26 classrooms, over 20 special rooms (including library, counselling room, career and guidance room, etc.), a hall, 2 basketball courts, 1 cricket court, and 2 covered playgrounds.[6]
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IKTMC's student composition includes students from Malaysia, India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Philippines, Iran, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, China, and Yemen.[8]
The school provides school bus service from all parts of Kowloon and New Territories (Tuen Mun, Yuen Long, Tin Shui Wai, Kam Tin, Tung Chung, Kwai Chung, Tsuen Wan, Lai King, Sha Tin, Tseung Kwan O, etc.) to the school and vice versa.
The school has organized trips toUmrah, Brunei, Turkey, Germany, Switzerland, USA, China (Beijing, Shanghai, Hainan etc.), Singapore, Malaysia and Japan over the past few years.
He graduated in the school year of 2013–2014 at the Islamic Kasim Tuet Memorial College. He is now a member of the Yau Tsim district patrol unit. Ifzal Zaffar made headlines around the world in 2017 after he climbed up the crane on a construction site near the Western Harbour Tunnel and persuaded the distressed man to come down by reassuring him in Urdu.[9]
She graduated from IKTMC in 2017 and achieved 34 points in theHKDSE. Due to her outstanding academic performance as an ethnic minority, she has been featured by several Hong Kong media.[10]
She graduated from IKTMC in 2012. she was awarded the Sir Edward Youde Memorial Scholarship. She has been admitted to the MSc in Education (Higher Education) programme of theUniversity of Oxford starting from the 2017/18 academic year with the aid of a scholarship. Due to her outstanding academic performance as an ethnic minority, she has been featured by several media.[11] She is now an English Language Lecturer at the Education University of Hong Kong.[1]
