The problems of Hong Kong education system

Education is the way to nourish our youths from generation to generation. In Hong Kong, it also pays much attention to the development of the education system. However, there are much controversial discussions on the topic of nowadays Hong Kong education. The two main problems will be briefly discussed here.

The first problem is Hong Kong education system is exam-oriented. Students need to have so many exams or tests for proving their performances. It is no doubted that through having exams is a way to test how much they have learnt through the lessons, but it should not be the only way. All the policies carried out just focus on the exams' results, for instance, even though in primary school, students are allocated to secondary schools through their performance on the 3 examinations taken in P.5 and P.6. There are keen competition between them as they fight for getting into a top or higher band school. This easily caused a huge pressure on those students. After they get into the secondary school, they quickly need to start preparing another public exam for being admitted into University. The serious stress is not healthy to students obviously. Emotional problems will be seen finally which is not a good phenomenon in Hong Kong.

The ignorance of moral quality and conduct is another problem in today Hong Kong education system. Since all of the people are mainly focused on academic results, but neglect the importance of having extra-curricular activities and building their personal characters.This specially affect among the secondary school students as they work day and night in exchange for a place in the University. They are busy with attending different tutorial classes after school but no more extra time for joining activities. It is a big obstacle for them to become a all-rounded student in different aspects. Moreover, the moral lessons are not being concerned much. No moral lessons are included in the planned timetable. Students cannot learn what is moral or how important to have a good conduct in a formal way. It will lead to a result that they think those things are not vital and can be ignored. They also cannot build a positive attitude and behaviour in daily life. The name of "Hong Kong Child" is raised for those children having a bad and self-fish attitude etc.

In order to improve the situation,  Hong Kong government changed the original secondary school educational policy into HKDSE which includes some continuous assessments for testing students' performance, and also start encouraging youths to develop other areas, such as sports. However, it is still not enough. I think the school should also take the responsibility to solve the problems. The concept of having good academic results is the only way to prove you are success should be implanted to the students' mind. Besides, providing some talks about the moral issues is another choice to teach the students to build a positive mind.