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CS promotes support for DC election

With only 11 days left before the District Council (DC) election, Chief Secretary Chan Kwok-ki and Secretary for the Civil Service Ingrid Yeung today visited the Queensway Government Offices to promote the election to colleagues and urge them to vote with family and friends on December 10.   Also joining the visit were representatives from the four civil service central consultative councils and the four major service-wide staff unions.   Mr Chan said civil servants are determined to organise a decent DC election and have encouraged colleagues to vote together with friends and relatives, so as to discharge their civic responsibility as well as support and accomodate the Government's governance.   “I have visited and talked to colleagues from various government departments in the hope of continuing to widely disseminate the important message of supporting the DC election and voting together among civil servants,” he added.   The DC geographical constituencies, inform
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Secondary school views sought

The Education Bureau today sent a one-month school questionnaire survey to all secondary schools to gauge their views on the proposals to optimise the curricula and assessments of the four senior secondary (SS) core subjects.   In tandem with the recommendations on creating space for students and catering for learner diversity set out in the review report, the committees on the four SS core subjects under the Curriculum Development Council (CDC) and the Examinations & Assessment Authority (EAA) have formulated proposals to optimise the curricula and assessments of the subjects.   For Chinese Language, the proposal is more about streamlining the teaching of the compulsory part and elective parts and reducing the number of papers in the public assessment to avoid excessive drilling.   For English Language, space would be created via integrating the teaching of the elective part into the compulsory part to reduce overlapping in teaching.   For Mathematics, the curriculum comprises the Foundation Topics and Non-foundation Topics. Students could opt for studying the Foundation Topics together with only part of the Non-foundation Topics.   They would be able to score as high as Level 4 in the Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education Examination should they perform well in the Foundation Topics.   As regards Liberal Studies, while the subject will be given a new name, various enhancement measures will be in place and the weight of its curriculum content will be reduced by half.   The school sector's views will be put to the committees on the four SS core subjects under the CDC and the EAA for consideration.   If eventually accepted, the proposals can be implemented at Secondary 4 in the 2021-22 school year at the earliest to benefit students as soon as possible.   Click here for details of the school questionnaire survey.
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