The training system is outdated and exams are now not obligatory as expertise can allow lecturers to maintain monitor of scholars’ studying progress to the minute, a former Hong Kong finance chief has mentioned.
John Tsang Chun-wah, who served as monetary secretary for a decade earlier than resigning to run for chief government in 2017, additionally mentioned on Monday that training expertise, which utilized cellular tech, digital actuality and synthetic intelligence to empower studying, must be adopted in Hong Kong relatively than simply specializing in e-learning and STEM classes.
“The training system is outdated,” he mentioned. “What the federal government must do is to vary your entire system, [but] I perceive that it takes time to push totally different stakeholders … The faculties have lots of funding however they have no idea tips on how to use it successfully.”
Tsang added that he all the time believed assessments have been pointless when requested whether or not the Diploma of Secondary Training (DSE), the town’s college entrance examinations, must be abolished.
“For instance, once I did my SAT examination, I used to be actually good at doing multiple-choice questions despite the fact that I used to be probably not educated,” he mentioned, referring to the check broadly utilized in the USA for faculty admission, including expertise might assist monitor college students’ efficiency.
“We would have liked public examinations prior to now as a result of we had restricted faculty locations … however now we even query whether or not we’d like college as a result of many firms now not take candidates’ levels into consideration.”
Tsang mentioned the coronavirus pandemic had created the momentum for educators to turn into extra used to distant instructing, however they need to not restrict it to easily placing bodily courses on-line however consider tips on how to domesticate college students’ curiosity utilizing expertise.
He advised the federal government assist some training expertise start-ups in order that they might perform tasks in native colleges to facilitate college students’ studying. College students might be divided based mostly on their studying aims and progress as a substitute of age, he added.
In her coverage handle this month, Chief Govt Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor mentioned the federal government had allotted HK$2bil (US$256mil or RM1.06bil) to assist colleges to implement blended studying – a mixture of interactive on-line training and conventional on-site classes – ranging from the 2021-22 educational yr.
She additionally pledged to actively nurture native IT expertise by encouraging college students to take part in STEM, or science, expertise, engineering and arithmetic, actions at college.
Tsang, in the meantime, declined to touch upon subsequent March’s chief government race, his expectations for candidates and whether or not he supported Lam for a second time period.
“I’m too busy with totally different tasks in the mean time, I don’t even take into consideration that,” he mentioned.
The 70-year-old, who was thought of a well-liked underdog within the 2017 race, took up numerous roles within the personal sector after shedding out to Lam.
Esperanza, a non-profit organisation he based in 2018, will maintain a summit on Nov three to assist a dozen abroad firms that target accelerating the event of training expertise to increase past their residence markets. – South China Morning Submit