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Education pioneer Jennifer Yu Cheng s latest initiative empowers teenage girls to be future-ready through STEM training and leadership development

By Kate Appleton

How do we equip young people for the future? This question has motivated Jennifer Yu Cheng for more than a decade. In 2009, it helped inspire the launch of Arch Education, which prepares students for higher education abroad, and, in 2017, CTF Education, a leader in integrated learning. Still, when Covid-19 hit, it was a wake-up call. She saw the pandemic roll back many gains that women had made in the workforce, while also accelerate the rate of digital transformation that will make a tech education even more critical for everyone. “The realisation is that there’s this urgency to close the opportunity gaps, especially for women in STEM and women in leadership,” says Yu Cheng. “Being in schools, we know that the gender bias and stereotypes still exist in Hong Kong and…

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Tatler Hong Kong (Digital) - 1 Issue, December 2021

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