MOST of the nearly 4,000 submissions collected for the Education Aims report urge major overhauls of the examination, and admission systems and the school allocation mechanism.
Four areas - school curriculum, examination and admission systems, measures to alleviate teachers' workload and calls for more social resources to support education - have been the main focus.
One of the more radical recommendations calls for the abolition of the Academic Aptitude Test taken by Primary Six students. Another asks whether non-performing students should sit through nine years of compulsory education.
Dr Cheng Kai-ming, a member of the Education Commission and pro-vice-chancellor of the University of Hong Kong, said: 'Some members have suggested the Academic Aptitude Test should be scrapped and standards for each academic subject be set up instead.
'Others have argued whether all students should sit through the nine-year compulsory education and be released after that regardless of whether we've reached certain levels.
'And if non-performing students should repeat a grade and how many times they should be allowed to redo a grade. They are not easy questions to answer instantly.' There was a consensus supporting the education goals proposed in the report, such as the emphasis on learning, communication skills, social responsibility and creativity.