BExcellent X GPEX Central HK

Signing Collaboration Agreement in Cambridge English promotion

Upgrading English Language Proficiency of Hong Kong

through Project “Assess Advance Achieve”

Beacon and GPEX signed a collaboration agreement in the witness of Cambridge Assessment English to launch the One-stop Cambridge English Assessment and Systematic Learning Program (Project “Assess Advance Achieve” or simply “Project AAA”) today. Beacon has become the first private education institution in Hong Kong offering the full range of Cambridge English learning pathway including the provision of test venues and related courses from the kindergarten to high school students. These preparation courses will only be taught by certified Cambridge teachers. The Project aims to benefit 15,000 local Hong Kong students by 2022.

Cambridge Assessment English exams are well-known internationally. Many Hong Kong parents are usually only familiar with pre-school exams but they may not know or have heard of the whole seamless Cambridge English Qualifications which span across the entire English learning journey. In fact, Cambridge English Qualifications are suitable for English learners of different ages from early childhood to adult with international recognition of performance, which can be comparable to HKDSE. At present, there are two authorised exam centres for Cambridge English Qualifications in Hong Kong. GPEX is one of them which is responsible for administering Cambridge Assessment English exams.

As a leader of private education institutions in Hong Kong, Beacon of BExcellent Group endeavors to contribute to improve the competitiveness of Hong Kong students among international counterparts by providing seamless English learning programs that include continuous assessments and quality education. With this aim, Beacon and GPEX jointly launched Project “Assess Advance Achieve”. Students of various ages from pre-school kindergarten to higher secondary school level can benefit by having continuous assessments in different stages according to their individual learning paths and advance further to achieve their goals of different English levels. GPEX has also made an unprecedented collaboration with Beacon to develop teaching content for a full range of Cambridge English Qualifications courses. All courses will be taught with textbooks from Cambridge University Press, and more importantly, all teaching staff must obtain Cambridge English Teaching qualifications. Therefore quality will be guaranteed and the consistency of the most professional standard in Cambridge Assessment English maintained.

Mr. Tian Ning, Reginal Operations Head-East Asia, Cambridge Assessment English, gave a preface to the collaboration. “Our mission is that we help people learn English and prove their skills to the world.”. We are honored to witness that Hong Kong’s largest private education platform has become a working partner of the Cambridge Assessment English. We are looking forward to the booming of Project AAA which will bring great benefits to Hong Kong students”

Ms. Leung Ho Ki June, Executive Director and Chairman of BExcellent Group, explained the concept of the collaboration: “Hong Kong parents and students love and hate assessments. They actively participate in different types of examinations to gain recognition, on the other hand, they are afraid of the pressure and labeling effect brought by the examination. If there is no assessment as a tool, learners tend to lose their direction, and it is difficult to know the progress of learning. A good assessment is a good learning tool itself.

We think that the assessment itself is not the source of stress and the pressure is from the screening system based on the results of the assessment. Parents and students will surely benefit from continuing participation in systematic and quality assessments while their results are used as a reference for their own learning. They will get twice the result with half the efforts.” June also said: “Beacon has helped nearly one million students to take the challenge of public examinations and holds the largest HKDSE mock examination in Hong Kong every year. We are very confident in high school English assessment. We are delighted that this is the first time of Beacon to promote a multi-stage and continuous international language assessment for both school children to adult learners. Having the overall English level of Hong Kong students improved is the best outcome we wish to see.”

Mr Teow Chorng Hoo, Managing Director of GPEX, said, “We are glad to partner with Beacon to promote courses on all the Cambridge English assessments from Pre A1 Starter to C1 Advanced. The more candidates sit in these assessments, the greater recognition of these assessments are among different sectors and so will Hong Kong students be aware of the importance of constantly improving their English. If market allows, we will further consider expanding our offerings of services to the Greater Bay Area.”

 

About GPEX

 

GPEX is an award-winning English Language educational service provider in Malaysia and Hong Kong. GPEX currently works with numerous educational institutions, such as kindergartens, primary and secondary schools, colleges, universities and language centres. Numerous Independent Private Chinese High Schools in Malaysia collaborate with GPEX for its superior support and educational services. It is known as a total educational solution provider.

 

In Malaysia, GPEX has been working alongside Cambridge English Language Assessment and Cambridge University Press since 2011. Because of its success with these partners, it has been recognised as a Cambridge English Strategic Partner in South East Asia. Part of GPEX Malaysia’s success stems from not only being an Authorised Exam Centre, but also being the Authorised Book Reseller for Cambridge University Press and a Cambridge English CELTA Teaching Qualification Centre.

 

In 2015, GPEX Malaysia was awarded the “South East Asia – Authorised Centre of the Year, Customer Service Excellence”.

 

In 2016, GPEX expanded services to Hong Kong and GPEX Hong Kong office was established in June. This brings us one step closer to our goal of becoming Asia’s number one educational solution provider.

 

For more information, please visit: http://gpexcentral.org/

 

About Cambridge Assessment English

 

They are part of Cambridge Assessment, which is a non-teaching department of the University of Cambridge. They provide the world’s leading range of qualifications for learners and teachers of English. Their expertise, gathered over 100 years of language learning and assessment, has led them to work with educational institutions and local and regional governments around the world.

 

Through years of research they have gained in-depth understanding of how people learn languages. This enables them to design assessments that help learners acquire the right skills based on how people use English today. They offer comprehensive preparation, support materials and resources for learning and teaching English. They help people learn English and prove their skills to the world.

 

Over 5.5 million people in 130 countries take their exams every year. Around the world over 20,000 universities, employers, government ministries and other organisations rely on their exams and qualifications as proof of English language ability.

 

For more information, please visit: http://www.cambridgeenglish.org/