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Non-Graduate Teacher Qualifications Assessment results

The Education Department announced today (Wednesday) that 87 out of 151 candidates passed in the third cycle of the Non-Graduate Teacher Qualifications Assessment (NGTQA) examination held between February and April this year.

A spokesman for the Education Department said letters of notification had been sent to both successful and unsuccessful candidates.

The spokesman said out of 87 successful candidates, 16 were qualified to use Chinese and English as their medium of instruction while 71 to use Chinese only.

A total of 10 candidates passed all three parts of the examination and 77 passed parts I and II.

Part I of the examination is to test the candidates on general education, part II on the medium of instruction and part III on professional training.

The spokesman said the NGTQA scheme was introduced in accordance with recommendations of the Education Commission Report No.5 to identify a wider pool of potential non-graduate teachers with qualifications and training obtained outside Hong Kong.

He said a candidate failing in only one subject in a sitting might apply to resit the examination twice on that subject in the subsequent two assessment examinations.

However, the spokesman said, a candidate failing in two or more subjects in one sitting or failing in the same subject repeatedly in the subsequent two assessment examinations would be required to take the whole examination again.

On the employment situation of successful NGTQA candidates, 130 successful candidates have so far reported having obtained teaching appointments.

In addition, recent statistics also showed that 17 successful candidates have been employed by the Education Department as teachers in government primary schools and another 14 will soon be offered appointment.

The spokesman said among the successful candidates who passed all three parts of the NGTQA examinations in previous cycles, 15 were undergoing supervised practical teaching.