Adding emotional quotient (EQ) training to the school curriculum could help prepare students to face the challenges and difficulties that lay ahead, a student told the Director of Education.
Fanny Law Fan Chiu-fun was guest-of-honour at the 50th anniversary celebrations of Tsung Tsin College.
Thirty students from Form One to Form Six met Mrs Law to express their views on the education system and difficulties with studying.
Form Three student So Ngai- hong said end of term examinations put students under a lot of pressure. Form Six student Au Yuen-ling said the results-oriented education system led to those with poor academic results being labelled 'losers'.
Mrs Law responded that examinations were a good way to check how much knowledge students had absorbed. The original function of the HKCEE and A- levels was to maintain students' academic standards, not to select an elite.
However, Mrs Law admitted there was a need to reform the system by, for example, putting greater emphasis on continuous assessment in order to ease the pressure on students and to teach students at their own pace.
