THE
PRINCIPAL
Dr George Adams
(Principal and Founder of OTHK) brings
thirty years of experience to the task.
He grew up on a council housing estate in
North East England. He went up to Oxford
University to read Modern Languages in
1976.
George Adams spent a
year in Heidelberg as a language
assistant at the Hoelderlin Grammar
School in 1978 and subsequently became an
assistant at two Cantonal Grammar Schools
in Zurich in 1980 and 1981. He also
taught English at the University
Extra-Mural Department and was a director
and actor at the Zurich Comedy Club. Dr
Adams read many works of English
literature onto tape for the Swiss
Library For The Blind. He won a Swiss
national competition prize for his German
writing.
In 1987, shortly after
getting married to a Swiss/Australian
national, he served as a Foreign Expert
in the People's Republic of China and
came to Hong Kong in 1988. He was awarded
a Senior Postgraduate Studentship at the
English Department of Hong Kong
University and completed his Ph.D. thesis
on English learning in Hong Kong under
Professor Roy Harris in 1992.
In Hong Kong George
Adams has been a full-time secondary
teacher, full-time English lecturer at
the Hong Kong Institute of Education and
has taught part-time at nearly all the
Hong Kong tertiary institutes. Dr Adams
successfully completed the Common
Professional Examination in Hong Kong and
English Law at HKU SPACE/Manchester
Metropolitan University. In recent years
he has taught English, French and German
to children of all ages at a number of
tutorial schools. He taught German at the
French International School. He has
taught Law and Business Law.
For ten years, George
Adams also wrote and/or edited all the
main teaching material for Hong Kong's
leading English 'glam tutor', Joseph Li.
George Adams has
published six books and his stories have
been anthologised in United States
compilations. He has been a presenter for
RTHK Radio Four and a music columnist for
the Hong Kong Standard. He was a
prize-winner in the SCMP Short Story
Competition and has been active in
Internet journalism since 1995. The USC
Annenberg School of Journalism termed him
'one of the fifty top names on the
international web'.
Dr Adams specialises in
'struggling students', 'reluctant
students' and 'remedial work'. He is
skilled at lifting students from a
middling performance to one of
distinction. He is also an expert at
calming examination nerves and resolving
scholastic and parental despondency.
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