Write like a scholar
Real essays, arguments and stories, not exam drills. Strong enough to enter the John Locke Global Essay Prize.
Oxbridge minds, made in Asia.
Project Agora is a Hong Kong learning studio, teaching since 2017. We bring Oxbridge-style tutorials to students aged 9 to 18 across Asia: writing, discussion and public speaking through the humanities and social sciences, in live online classes of three to seven — and we make it genuinely fun.
Families pour so much into their children’s education — the tutors, the endless revision sessions. Yet something is still missing. Project Agora is that missing piece: real thinking, a real voice, and the confidence to use it. We are not an ordinary tutorial centre; our classes are Socratic discussions where every voice matters, and the quiet ones grow into the first to speak.
Our students are trained to:
Speak like a leader
Debate, oracy and presentation, taught until your child can hold a room, with the TED-Ed stage included.
Think for themselves
We teach how to learn, so your child grows into an independent, motivated mind that goes far in life.
And actually love it
Bright, playful classes children look forward to. The result is a child who can think, write and speak for themselves, truly ready for the future.
The record
8 of 8secondary entrants shortlisted, John Locke Institute Global Essay Prize 2026
100+students on the TED-Ed Student Talks stage
30+partner schools
2017teaching since
Our students go on to the world’s finest universities, including Oxford, Cambridge, LSE, UCL, Imperial, HKU and Columbia.
McQueen Sum
Founder
“We bring Oxford and Cambridge’s world-class teaching to young minds across the world. And we make it genuinely fun, and useful for life.”
Oxford PhD & Clarendon Scholar in Education, with over ten years of teaching experience. Research Associate at the Centre for Global Higher Education.
Master's at Columbia (Teachers College) in media & learning technologies. Undergrad at HKU in International Business & Global Management with a second major in Philosophy (full scholarship).
Early work with Khan Academy and HarvardX (edX). Assistant Lecturer at HKU. President of the Rotary Club of Neoteric Hong Kong (2026–27). HKDSE top scorer, 6×5**.
At Harvard College, she studied under Amartya Sen (Nobel Laureate in Economics) · Eric Maskin (Nobel Laureate in Economics) · Michael Sandel (Harvard’s “Justice”)
Our teachers
Our classes are led by educators from Oxford, Cambridge and the world’s leading universities — teachers who teach your child as they would teach their own. Every Project Agora teacher completes our structured training and certification before their first class.
