EdUHK Survey: 60% of Hong Kong Schools Now Using AI for Teaching

Six in ten Hong Kong schools are now using artificial intelligence for teaching or administrative work, according to research by the Education University of Hong Kong covering 1,892 respondents across 163 institutions surveyed between May and June 2026. Among schools already using the technology, 61 percent of applications are focused on instruction rather than administration, suggesting that classrooms, not back offices, are where adoption is taking hold first.

The university researchers used the findings to call on educators to improve their knowledge of the technology so they can better guide students. That framing points at a gap already visible in the numbers: adoption is happening, but the professional capacity to deploy it well may not be keeping pace.

The 40 percent of schools not yet using AI cited three obstacles: a shortage of AI talent, manpower constraints, and limited funding. Those are structural problems rather than matters of willingness; the survey covered 65 primary schools, 82 secondary schools, and 16 special schools and other institutions, though the published findings do not break adoption rates down by category.

What the South China Morning Post reporting does not give you is which specific tools or platforms adopting schools are using, or what threshold of use counts as "using AI." A pilot program and a fully integrated curriculum tool look very different in practice, and that distinction matters for reading the 60 percent figure as genuine systemic integration versus early-stage experimentation.

For teacher training programs and edtech providers, the combination of documented adoption and a named talent gap points toward a clear near-term opportunity. The institution that conducted this research is itself well positioned to address the professional development shortfall it identified.