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Applicants invited to take part in qualification scheme
The Education Department is inviting applicants to participate in the fourth Non-graduate Teacher Qualifications Assessment (NGTQA) to determine whether they possess the academic and professional knowledge and skills to teach in local primary schools.
Application forms for the 1996 cycle will be distributed from next Wednesday (November 15) to December 14.
Under the NGTQA Scheme, suitable applicants who have obtained their qualifications and training outside Hong Kong would be assessed if their academic standard and professional knowledge and skills are equivalent to those of the non- graduate teachers trained locally.
The third cycle of the Scheme was completed in August and the pass rate was 58 per cent.
To be eligible for admission to the assessment, a candidate must:
produce valid graduation certificate as documentary evidence of having satisfactorily completed a post-secondary full-time course of not less than three years, or equivalent, in an educational institution outside Hong Kong;
* be of good character as testified by two referees; and
be eligible to stay in Hong Kong and not be subject to any restriction on employment imposed by the Immigration Department, Hong Kong.
The assessment comprises three parts:
Part I (General Education)
Candidates are assessed on their standard of knowledge in the subjects they will teach. Eight subjects are offered Chinese, English, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies (including Health Education), Music, Physical Education and Art and Craft. Each candidate will have to select two subjects in Part I: