Hong Kong · Macau · Seoul · Yokohama

Commitment. Excellence. Integrity.

For forty years we have turned contract work into qualifications — opening secondary school, college and teaching careers to overseas workers and their families.

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Filipino-owned. For the Filipino — and for every learner in Hong Kong.

**Golden Crown Global Award 2025**Outstanding HK-based Filipino-owned educational institution

40+Years in Hong Kong

56%Of all LET passers from Hong Kong since 2013

99%Pass rate in the Indonesian Ujian Nasional

4Cities across Asia

Our story

It began with a community centre, not a campus

Kabayan Center Philippines was founded in Hong Kong in 1985 by Dr. Angel T. Ramos as an organisation for Filipinos living and working in the city — offering legal assistance and a place of refuge for migrant workers in distress.

In 1988 the centre began teaching livelihood courses — computing, dressmaking, culinary arts — so that workers would return home with a skill. By 1990, KCP Holdings had been formed as its corporate arm, and the classroom has been at the centre of everything since.

To see a humble contract worker emerge as a university graduate, a licensure passer, a registered professional teacher — that is the whole of our work.

Today the group runs registered schools and colleges in Hong Kong and Macau, with representative offices reaching Seoul and Yokohama, and it remains what it has always been: Filipino-owned, and open to everyone.

See forty years of milestones

The group

Five institutions, one purpose

Each school in the group is registered with the authority that matters for the qualification it awards — so what you earn here counts when you go home, or go further.

Capstone College

Hong Kong · Macau · Seoul · Yokohama

Registered with the Hong Kong Education Bureau in 1996 as South Bend International School and renamed in 2006. Its Secondary 3–6 courses have been qualified for the UK-based IGCSE examinations since 2006.

Capstone Education Center

Central & Yuen Long, Hong Kong

The group's adult learning arm: Alternative Learning System, senior high school, caregiving and short courses, with weekday, weekend and home-study schedules built around a working week.

Bintang Nusantara School

For Indonesian workers in Hong Kong

Registered with the Education Bureau in 2006 to run SMP and SMA programmes. Students sit the Ujian Nasional twice a year in Hong Kong, and have passed at a rate of 99% in both examinations.

Oxfordian Colleges

Oxford–Philippines International School

Partner in the group's international accreditation programmes, allowing vocational and certificate study already completed elsewhere to be credited towards a full college qualification.

KCP Consultants Macau

Macau · with Langlow Education

Opened in late 2015 as the group's Macau representative office, bringing the full range of KCP programmes to workers and residents there, with satellite offices planned for Singapore and Seoul.

In partnership with

University of Luzon (College of Education and College of Business Administration), the Hong Kong Examinations and Assessments Authority, and the Philippine Department of Education's Alternative Learning System.

What you can study

Qualifications that travel with you

Every programme below carries real credit units and a graded transcript — the paperwork an employer or an immigration officer will actually ask to see.

Most enrolled

Caregiver to Nursing Aide

The all-in-one package that takes a caregiving certificate up to the 72 credit units most overseas applications require. Open to caregiver graduates from other institutions.

+72 credit units, one package
Weekday and weekend schedules
Monthly installment plans

Senior High School — Grades 11 & 12

Finish secondary school while you work, through the Alternative Learning System and a modular home-study approach, with supervised sessions where they are needed.

72-unit Grade 11 & 12 package
Modular home-study approach
Tracks in business, tourism, education, housekeeping

Flagship

Teacher education & LET review

The route from overseas worker to registered professional teacher. Non-education graduates complete the Certificate in Professional Education in ten months and sit the licensure examination in Hong Kong or the Philippines.

18 units of professional education subjects
6-unit enhancement programme and LET review included
Practical teaching credits and a teaching experience certificate

BSBA in Entrepreneurship

A full bachelor's degree by distance learning, offered jointly with the University of Luzon — the missing link between a certificate course and a university diploma.

Purely distance learning
With University of Luzon
Open to Hong Kong and Macau residents

Tourism, hotel & housekeeping services

Vocational tracks for hospitality work, with prior certificate study from other providers accredited towards the units you still need.

Tourism and hotel services
Housekeeping and HRM services
Culinary and health care accredited

Montessori teacher training

Early-childhood teaching methods, with practical half-day classes — including Basic Painting for Beginners on Saturday and Sunday mornings.

Half-day weekend classes
Materials included
Open to beginners

SMP & SMA — Indonesian curriculum

Junior and senior high school for Indonesian workers in Hong Kong, with the Ujian Nasional sat twice a year here rather than at home.

SMP and SMA programmes
National examination held in Hong Kong
Progress to post-secondary study

Business & management

Certificate and degree pathways in business administration and management, built for people planning a return home as entrepreneurs.

Certificate to degree pathway
Entrepreneurship focus
Evening and weekend study

Not sure which one fits?

Bring a copy of your transcript to a free orientation and we will tell you exactly how many units you already have, and how many are left.

Book a free orientation

Before you enrol anywhere

Six questions worth asking

Training is not all equal, and the difference only shows up years later, at the moment it matters most. Ask these of us, and of anyone else.

Is it a registered school, or only a training centre?
KCP institutions are registered with the Hong Kong Education Bureau. A training centre cannot award credit that a university or an employer abroad will recognise.
Does the training carry credit units?
Ours do, and they are stated on your record. Hours of attendance alone are not units.
Does your transcript show grades?
A transcript that says only “Passed” is thin evidence. Ours carries a grade for every subject.
Did you perform a supervised return demonstration?
Skills are assessed by doing them in front of an instructor, for the hours the programme requires.
Do you have the 72 units an overseas application needs?
This is the quiet reason many applications fail. We package the units so you reach the threshold.
Can you afford it while working?
Classes are capped at 15 students, run on weekdays and weekends, and tuition is payable monthly.

It should be legitimate, and it should be true.

Milestones

Forty years, told briefly

1985
Kabayan Center Philippines is founded
Dr. Angel T. Ramos establishes an organisation for Filipinos working and living in Hong Kong, offering legal assistance and support for migrant workers in distress.
1988
The first classes
Livelihood courses begin — computer lessons, dressmaking and culinary arts — to equip overseas workers as future returning residents.
1990
KCP Holdings is established
The corporate arm of Kabayan Center Philippines is formed after five years of steady growth.
1991
The first caregiver training in Hong Kong
In response to Canada's Live-in Caregiver Program, KCP introduces the first caregiver training programme in Hong Kong and the Philippines, and sees caregivers deployed to Canada. Later that year it receives the Philippine Presidential Award for Outstanding Filipino Organizations Overseas.
1996
Two schools, and a presidential award
The Philippine International School and South Bend International School are registered with the Hong Kong Education Bureau. Dr. Ramos is named an Outstanding Filipino Overseas, and is later recognised by the Ateneo de Manila University's Ugat Foundation and ABS-CBN as a Filipino Hero of the Century.
2006
Capstone College, and the IGCSE
South Bend International School is renamed Capstone College, and the Education Bureau and the Hong Kong Examinations and Assessments Authority qualify its students to sit the IGCSE. Bintang Nusantara School is registered the same year for Indonesian workers.
2011
The University of Luzon partnership
As Grades 11 and 12 enter the Philippine curriculum, the group begins its joint work with the University of Luzon's College of Education on teacher training.
2013
LET review begins
The licensure review programme opens, and goes on to account for more than 56% of all teacher licensure passers from Hong Kong.
2015
Macau, and beyond
The KCP Consultants Macau representative office opens, with satellite offices for Singapore and Seoul in preparation.
2025
Golden Crown Global Awards
Capstone College Hong Kong is named Outstanding HK-based Filipino-owned Educational Institution, and Dr. Angel T. Ramos receives the Award of Excellence in Innovative Education at Okada Manila.

Recognition

Awarded, at home and abroad

Golden Crown Global Awards 2025Outstanding HK-based Filipino-owned Educational Institution — Capstone College Hong Kong
Golden Crown Global Awards 2025Award of Excellence in Innovative Education — Dr. Angel T. Ramos, BSBA, CPA, MBA, DBA
Philippine Presidential Award, 1991Outstanding Filipino Organizations Overseas — KCP Holdings
Philippine Presidential Award, 1996Outstanding Filipino Overseas — Dr. Angel T. Ramos
Filipino Heroes of the CenturyAteneo de Manila University's Ugat Foundation and the ABS-CBN network