Despite clashes broke out in Mong Kok between protesters and police two days before the event, Education UK schools and colleges exhibition was held as scheduled on Sunday 19 October, and attracted approximately 900 people at the Langham Place Hotel. The event brought representatives from 45 UK schools and further education institutions to meet with Hong Kong students and parents, providing them with information on education opportunities, subject and pathway choices, as well as helping them to make applications for the September 2015 semester.

A series of seminars were held on the day with topics including guardianship, how to choose a boarding school in the UK, education pathways available, as well as truths and myths in school/university application.

The topical seminars and large number of school exhibitors also attracted media interest, with reporters from top mass-circulation newspapers coming to attend the event.