Hong Kong’s exams authority looks to Greater Bay Area for new opportunities amid falling revenues at home
The self-financing Examinations and Assessment Authority says its surplus fell by 23 per cent last year, and expects to log a deficit for this year and the next
Body’s chief told lawmakers it had an ‘active and open attitude towards Greater Bay Area opportunities’, but acknowledged pursuing them would be complicated
Global exam disruption continues into its second year
The disruption of school-leaving exams which determine entry to university is now entering its second year as countries suffer second and third waves of COVID-19 infections. It has an effect well beyond the individual country’s exams as universities around the world try to assess the varied impact for international student admissions and attempts to be fair to students.
But the experience of last year’s cycle of school-leaving exams around the world, and the likelihood that COVID-19 related disruptions will continue to affect teaching and learning for the current cohort, have led to even greater reluctance this year to suspend crucial national examinations, with many countries believing there is little fair alternative for university admissions.
December 23, 2020
Former exam authority official Hans Yeung says he was scapegoated over a question on 20th century Sino-Japanese relations.
South China Morning Post
A veteran employee at Hong Kong’s exam authority who stepped down last month following an outcry over a question on Sino-Japanese relations has said he was made a scapegoat and that he resigned under “political pressure”.
Speaking out in an interview with the Post more than six months after the controversy erupted, Hans Yeung Wing-yu also defended the controversial university entrance exam question, which had asked students if they agreed with the statement that Japan did “more good than harm to China” in the first half of the 20th century.
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