... pping the TSA test for good. That said, the CE delivered at least one piece of good news for the sector. That is, the government will be providing a recurrent "air-conditioning grant" for schools star ...More
EJ Insight2017-10-16
... curity. A TSA spokesman said the US government had lifted the restrictions at Saudi Arabian Airlines' main hub in Jeddah at King Abdulaziz International Airport on Monday. US government officials will ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-18
... less the TSA professionals that are looking at what's in those bags through the monitors can tell what's in them." The TSA has begun testing certain new procedures at a limited number of airports, re ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-29
As the controversy over the highly unpopular Territory-wide System Assessment (TSA) Test for primary school students continues to snowball, outgoing Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying and his incoming su ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-19
... sessment (TSA) will be replaced with the BCA. All primary three students will have to sit for a test on their English, Chinese and math proficiency. Ng has insisted that the BCA tests will go ahead as ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-13
... sessment (TSA). Speaking to reporters before an Executive Council meeting later in the day, Leung said even if the TSA is to be abolished, it would only happen after July 1, when he is no longer chief ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-29
... tary John Tsang took 365 votes while retired judge Woo Kwok-hing won 21 votes. Lam, who will turn 60 in May, joined the civil service in 1980 after graduating from the University of Hong Kong, and has ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-26
... s -- John Tsang Chun-wah, Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor and Woo Kwok-hing -- on the ballot paper are 1, 2 and 3, respectively. The campaign slogan of John Tsang is “Trust, Hope and Unity”. In his electio ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-26
... ival John Tsang. Just weeks ago they were the most senior members of the same government but to hear them speak now you would imagine that they had no contact while in office and that they somehow cam ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-10
The government has reignited the controversy surrounding the hotly disputed Territory-wide System Assessment program (TSA) by announcing that it will be replaced by the Basic Competency Assessment pro ...More
EJ Insight2017-01-26
... sessment (TSA) under a new name. Education Secretary Eddie Ng Hak-kim rejected criticism that the BCA is TSA with a different name. BCA features some new elements, Ng said, claiming that it will have ...More
EJ Insight2017-01-24
Education Secretary Eddie Ng has come under criticism for allegedly making insensitive remarks to a parents group that raised concerns over the new Territory-wide System Assessment (TSA) curriculum. A ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-22
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
