Education authorities will expand the Territory-wide Assessment (TSA) examinations for primary three students to all schools, up from 50 schools this year. The Coordinating Committee on Basic Competen ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-08
... sessment (TSA) that gauges students' attainment of basic competencies, the report says. For example, the 2015 TSA results showed that students who had breakfast almost every day on average scored 30-5 ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-28
... the Tsim Tsa Tsui waterfront. In the pictures that went viral, the extreme sports lover-- who identified himself as Steven Wong -- can be seen skateboarding on the concave arc-shaped rooftop without ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-05
... Alliance, TSA Parents Concern Group and the St. James’ Settlement, to plan and prepare for the rest day. Progressive Teachers’ Alliance member Chan Wai-kin, who has been teaching at TMGSS for 24 years ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-29
... sessment (TSA) were rated the three most unwelcome education policies in the survey. According to the survey, 41 percent of the teachers work over 61 hours a week, or 10 hours a day for six days each ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-06
... sessment (TSA) for local students. The incident happened after Ng attended an anniversary celebration at the Queen Elizabeth School Old Students’ Association Tong Kwok Wah Secondary School in Tin Shui ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-21
... sessment (TSA) or the Pre-S1 exam for secondary school is never the end of the world. There’s no need to lose any sleep, let alone take one’s life, over paltry issues like academics. It’s not a sin t ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-16
... sessment (TSA), the Pre-S1 examination for students entering secondary school, an increasingly academic-heavy curriculum and the keen competition for university places, Ip said. Teachers have found it ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-11
The uproar over the Territory-wide System Assessment (TSA) examinations is still raging, yet another controversy is brewing on the education front. By the looks of it, nothing can stop this government ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-05
The Territory-wide System Assessment (TSA) for Primary 3 students will be held in only one in 10 primary schools this year, Metro Daily reported Friday. The Education Bureau (EDB) has accepted a recom ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-05
... ly of the TSA are not suffering in the Hong Kong education system. They have either beem sent overseas or are studying at international schools in the city.) It’s time to apply genuine 21st century lo ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-19
... t. Donald Tsang Yam-kuen, who succeeded Tung as CE, made a distinction between people on the basis of political affinity. That has led to the divisions in society getting more deep. As for Leung Chun- ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-23
... sessment (TSA) examination during weekends and holidays. The Education Bureau (EDB) also asked parents to report any school that fails to comply, Apple Daily reports. Secretary for Education Eddie Ng ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-15
We keep hearing about the Territory-wide System Assessment (TSA) and why it should be scrapped. The public is against it because of its overemphasis on preparation which runs counter to the TSA’s mand ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-12
... stmas the TSA exam scheduled for June, the parents said, they will not encourage their children to do extra exercises during the Christmas holiday to prepare them for it, nor will they allow their chi ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-11
... ating for TSA's abolition. There were instances where schools asked students to come in 30 minutes earlier to do TSA exercises. Cheung Yung-pong, principal of S.K.H. St. James' Primary School and a c ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-07
Nothing could have been more ridiculous than asking an 8-year-old kid to testify at a hearing over the Territory-wide System Assessment (TSA), the mechanism introduced by the Education Bureau under wh ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-04
The day after a pro-establishment party official and his daughter spoke up in favor of the controversial Territory-wide System Assessment (TSA) at a public hearing, the girl's school issued a statemen ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-01
... sessment (TSA) for primary school students, for example, is turning into a huge political bomb, four years after the students staged massive protests that led to the government scrapping its patriotic ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-30
... sessment (TSA) for primary three students is being reviewed after complaints from parents that its overemphasis on preparation is a burden on their children. Yeung said the TSA has "issues" and that a ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-30
