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Written by: Deng Yinglin, Kwong Xiaobin
2020-11-25 17:10
Last update date: 2020-11-25 17:10
Chief Executive Carrie Lam today (25th) released the fourth "Policy Address" during her term. In terms of education, she emphasized that the government's role is not only to provide resources, but also to be a policy maker, implementer and regulator.
She reiterated that students must have a sense of law abiding and will set up annual "Constitution Day" and "National Security Education Day" for public education.
She also asked teachers to train the next generation to become national pillars with both talents and ethics and uphold "One Country, Two Systems".
As for the high school general education subject, Lam Cheng described the controversy as never stopped. The future reform direction "must correct the problem of the alienation of the general education subject in the past." In addition to cultivating thinking and rational analysis, it also needs to learn about national development, the Constitution, and the Basic Law. Wait, she revealed that the Secretary for Education will announce the details later.
The Chief Executive Carrie Lam announced today (25th) the fourth "Policy Address" during his term, stating that the government will start to improve the quality of teachers from various aspects of induction, training and management, including discussions with teacher training institutions on how to ensure the teacher's ethics and character And ethics, and increase pre-employment, in-service and promotion training.
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Lam Cheng: Strengthen teacher training and hope to train the next generation to become national pillars of maintaining "One Country, Two Systems"
In the "Policy Address", Lam Cheng pointed out that in the social incidents last year, more than 10,000 people were made up and four became students. Nearly two thousand were primary and secondary school students. She believed that the incident showed that some young people lacked the values of mutual tolerance and respect. It is necessary to strengthen moral education, civic and national education, and raise Hong Kong people's awareness of national security concepts and law-abiding.
She hopes that teachers can train the next generation to become national pillars with both talents and ethics and maintain "One Country, Two Systems". Therefore, the government will start to improve the quality of teachers from various aspects of entry, training and management, including discussions with teacher training institutions on how to ensure the teacher's morality and character And ethics, increase the induction, in-service and promotion training for teachers and principals; she emphasized that the Education Bureau will seriously follow up "incompetent" and "unscrupulous" teachers, "including the cancellation of the teacher qualifications of severely unscrupulous persons to avoid them Misunderstandings."
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She also revealed that a plan is being formulated in accordance with Articles 9 and 10 of the "Hong Kong National Security Law" to set up "Constitution Day" and "National Security Education Day" every year to conduct a larger scale of public education.
Lam Cheng: Education Bureau will announce details of general education reform
Regarding the HKDSE General Studies subject, the School Curriculum Review Task Force of the Education Bureau released the final report on the NSS curriculum in September.
It is recommended to maintain Liberal Studies as one of the four core subjects of the senior secondary curriculum.
The "Wen Wei Po" quoted news today (25) that the DSE general education subject will be reformed and the compulsory exam will be maintained, but it will no longer be rated from 1 to 5**, and will only be divided into "passed" and "unqualified".
The study topics will be reduced from 12 to 6, and students are required to go to the Mainland to participate in project studies; there will be a separate list of applicable books. If the school has its own teaching materials, it must be filed with the Education Bureau.
Government sources said that they did not comment on individual reports, did not deny or confirm whether the Liberal Studies rating system will be changed, and only reiterated that the Policy Address reiterated the goal of the Liberal Studies curriculum, and the Education Bureau will follow up the community's disputes on the Liberal Studies.
Carrie Lam revealed that the Secretary for Education will announce the details later.
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In addition, a 2020 issue of the DSE History Department related to Sino-Japanese relations caused controversy. Eventually, the Education Bureau requested the Examination Bureau to cancel the topic.
Carrie Lam reiterated the incident today, describing that future curriculum reforms and assessment work must coordinate with each other. "A wrong Diploma Examination question in the last school year caused heated discussions in the community. I hope that the Hong Kong Examinations and Assessment Authority will continue to improve its examination mechanism to prevent similar problems from recurring. "
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