SCHOOL VISIT
Wycombe Abbey School Hong Kong An exclusive look inside the private British prep school. By Cheyelene Fontanilla Howard Tuckett is the Headmaster at Wycombe Abbey School Hong Kong, a private British preparatory school located in Aberdeen. If the name Wycombe Abbey sounds familiar, it’s because the original institution, founded on the day of Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee in 1896, is a leading independent boarding school in the United Kingdom. It is consistently ranked number one for academic results at A-Level. For this month’s Education edition, we spoke to Tuckett to get a full picture of the school here in Hong Kong and how it helps students transition to top secondary and boarding schools in the UK and worldwide.
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As the Headmaster of Wycombe Abbey School Hong Kong, Tuckett is responsible for connecting students with some of England’s best educational institutions - and thank goodness for that. With more than 20 years of experience as the head of various British prep schools, Tuckett is in the best possible position to set his students up for success. “For a few years, I was a deputy head and for the last 22 years now, I’ve been a head of a British prep school. This is now my third prep school and in and amongst all that, I’ve also been an inspector with the Independent Schools Inspectorate.”
