A student taking the DSE exam this year. Hong Kong’s education system, like many other systems in the Asia-Pacific region, is based on widespread testing from the earliest years through to the Diploma in Secondary Education. Photo: Dickson Lee A student taking the DSE exam this year. Hong Kong’s education system, like many other systems in the Asia-Pacific region, is based on widespread testing from the earliest years through to the Diploma in Secondary Education. Photo: Dickson Lee
A student taking the DSE exam this year. Hong Kong’s education system, like many other systems in the Asia-Pacific region, is based on widespread testing from the earliest years through to the Diploma in Secondary Education. Photo: Dickson Lee
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Make Hong Kong’s TSA test a real tool for learning, rather than one for management

Kerry Kennedy says Hong Kong has strayed far from the vision of its own education reform, and if the culture isn’t changed, getting rid of the TSA or its replacement won’t ease pressure on students

Topic |   Hong Kong schools
Kerry Kennedy
Kerry Kennedy

Updated: 2:55pm, 20 Jul, 2018

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A student taking the DSE exam this year. Hong Kong’s education system, like many other systems in the Asia-Pacific region, is based on widespread testing from the earliest years through to the Diploma in Secondary Education. Photo: Dickson Lee A student taking the DSE exam this year. Hong Kong’s education system, like many other systems in the Asia-Pacific region, is based on widespread testing from the earliest years through to the Diploma in Secondary Education. Photo: Dickson Lee
A student taking the DSE exam this year. Hong Kong’s education system, like many other systems in the Asia-Pacific region, is based on widespread testing from the earliest years through to the Diploma in Secondary Education. Photo: Dickson Lee
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