Education Commission

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Education Commissions Annual Reporting Session

• Education for Tomorrow
• Professor Arthur K C Li, GBS, JP
• Secretary for Education and Manpower
• 11 December 2004

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Primary Aims of Education Reform

• Motivating students to learn
• Learning to learn

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• Reforming the Academic Structure
• for Senior Secondary and
• Higher Education
• Review of the Medium of Instruction
• (MOI) and Secondary School Places
• Allocation (SSPA) System

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Key Attainment
Stages of Education
Further development

• 100 qualified KG teachers
• All new principals are trained
• Introduced QAI

• Harmonisation of KG
• CCC (2005)
• Further upgrading of
• qualifications of
• KG/CCC teachers

Early childhood education

• Abollished AAT
• Introduced BCA
• Launched curriculum
• reform
• Strengthened school
• accountability
• Stepped up professional
• development of
• principals/teachers

• Implement BCA
• systems assessment
• at P.6 (2005) and S.3 (2006)

Basic education 6 years primary 3 years
junior secondary

• Implement 3-year
• senior secondary
• structure (2008)

• 100 provision of
• school places
• Diversified
• curriculum with
• career-oriented
• studies and
• Project Ji Yin

Senior secondary education
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Stages of education
Further development
Key attainment
Post secondary education

• Further expand
• to 60 (by 2010)

• Increased participation
• rate to 53

• Mutual recognition
• of qualifications
• with Mainland
• institutions
• Encourage deep
• collaboration
• between universities

• Position HK as
• regional
• education hub

Higher education

• Introduced
• Continuing Education
• Fund (2002)
• Skills Upgrading
• Scheme (2001)
• Established qualifications
• framework

• Establish
• qualifications
• register

Continuing education
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Impact

• Improvement in students communication skills,
  independent thinking, motivation, creativity and
  commitment
• Improvement in relationship among stakeholders
  (teachers, parents, students) and morale of
  teachers
• Primary students find learning much more enjoyable

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Impact

• Over 100,000 persons have benefitted from the
  Skills Upgrading Scheme since September 2001
• Over 140,000 applications for the Continuing
  Education Fund have been approved since June 2004
• Over 20,000 students have enrolled in Project Yi
  Jin

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Student Achievements

• Programme for International Student
• Assessment (PISA) 2003
• 1st (Maths), 2nd (problem solving),3rd (Science),
  10th (Reading)
• International Mathematics Olympiad 2004
• 2 silver, 2 bronze, 2 honourable mention
• International Physics Olympiad 2004
• 1 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze, 1 honourable mention
• Intel International Science and Technology
• Award 2004
• 2nd (engineering), 4th (chemistry, environmental
  science)

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Student Achievement (Contd)

• National Olympiad in Informatics 2004
• 1 silver, 3 bronze
• National Mathematics Olympiad 2004
• 1 silver, 7 bronze
• Special Olympiads Winter Games 2004
• gold (skating)
• Athens Paralympics Games 2004
• silver

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Hall of Fame
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Teachers Achievement

• CEs Award for Teaching Excellence
• 44 language teachers awarded
• 85 teachers commended
• National Awards
• Intel Outstanding Teacher Award of the
• 19th National Science and
• Technology Invention Contest
• Top honours in the 5th National Young
• Teachers Competition (Reading)

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Qualification of Teachers
Qualification of Qualified Primary and Secondary
School Teachers (1996/97 to 2003/04)
Primary
Secondary
1996/97
2003/04
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Challenges

1. More holistic approach to nurturing young people
2. Changing the mindset
3. Professional development
4. Synergising innovations
5. Narrowing the achievement gap

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Priorities for 2005

• 334 reform
• MOI and SSPA
• Professional development for sustainable
  improvement
• Developing the qualifications register
• Networking for community support