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Qualifications Assessment
學歷評估
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Benchmarking against International
Best Practice
HKCAAVQ has developed so-called Country/Area Profiles (CAP)
for Australia, Canada, Mainland China, New Zealand, South Africa,
Taiwan, the United Kingdom and the United States of America.
Each CAP contains comprehensive information on a country/area’s
education systems and qualifications. The CAP systematises the
accumulated assessment experience accumulated by HKCAAVQ
over the years into internal assessment reference tools. We expect
that these assessment tools will increase the quality and efficiency
of our qualifications assessment service. Under our Memorandum
of Co-operation, the National Recognition Information Centre for the
United Kingdom (UK NARIC) supported the development of CAPs.
A task group established by the Council comprising local and
international Council members and external experts, a representative
from the Education Bureau and the Executive Director of HKCAAVQ
reviewed our qualifications assessment service against international
best practices and latest developments in the local education
system. The findings were presented and the recommendations were
approved by the Council in March 2016. At present, the qualifications
assessment service is revising its processes and guidelines for the
recommendations to take effect on 1 July 2016; these include (a)
the consideration of other forms of recognised prior learning when
assessing educational qualifications; (b) adopting CAPs as the key
assessment tool in qualifications assessment and (c) updating the list
of possible award titles under HKQF as assessment outcomes.
Looking Forward
The development of CAPs and the review of the qualifications
assessment service have better aligned our qualifications
assessment approach with international best practices and the latest
developments of the local education system. The implementation
of the recommendations from the review will further improve the
quality and efficiency of our assessment work. The existing eight
CAPs (and any new CAPs) will become a major focus of qualifications
assessment’s research and development.
與國際最佳作業標準接軌
評審局已建立了澳洲、加拿大、中國、
紐西蘭、南非、台灣、英國及美國之國
家╱地區資料庫。每個國家╱地區資料
庫都涵蓋該國家╱地區的教育體系和學
歷之詳細資料。資料庫之把評審局過往
累積之學歷評估經驗及資訊轉化成一套
有系統的評估工具，這資料庫之建立有
助提升學歷評估服務之質素及效率。根
據評審局與英國國家認證信息中心
(UK
NARIC)
簽訂的合作備忘錄，
UK NARIC
也會提供資料支援評審局發展國家╱地
區資料庫。
評審局早前成立了一個工作小組檢視本
局之學歷評估服務。工作小組除考慮本
港教育制度的最新發展外，亦確保我們
的評估服務與國際最佳作業標準一致。
工作小組的成員包括評審局本地及非本
地成員、局外專家、教育局代表及評審
局總幹事。小組的檢討結果和建議已
於
2016
年
3
月獲得評審局大會審批。
目前，學歷評估服務正就有關建議修訂
現有之評估流程及準則。新的評估準則
會在
2016
年
7
月
1
日生效，其中包括：
（一）評估學歷時將會考慮其他形式的已
認可之過往資歷；（二）以國家╱地區資
料庫為主要的學歷評估工具，及（三）更
新香港資歷架構下資歷名銜為學歷評估
結果。
未來展望
國家╱地區資料庫之建立及學歷評估服
務之檢討工作，令學歷評估服務更貼近
國際優良標準和本地教育制度之最新發
展。而落實檢討建議，則可提高評估工
作之質素及效率。現有的八個國家╱地
區資料庫（及將來新增的資料庫）將成為
本局學歷評估研究和發展的重點。