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The Institute works closely with school principals to improve
the quality of education in Hong Kong schools. This strong
partnership was evidenced in the 2nd Hong Kong School Principals'
Conference held on 31 March 2006. The Conference, entitled
"Beyond Dilemmas", brought together over 1,000 leaders
in education, ranging from secondary and primary school principals
and vice-principals, academic researchers and education policy-makers.
The occasion provided educators with a platform to share their
views and learn from experiences overseas, including the inspiring
talk given by Professor Clive Dimmock from the UK.
The Institute is committed to developing broad international
perspectives in its student body and views this as an essential
part of teacher education. The HKIEd is currently in an early,
yet rapidly developing, stage of involvement in student exchange
programmes and international study tours with partners from
the mainland, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, North America,
the UK and Europe. In 2005-06, the Institute provided immersion
programmes of up to15 weeks, for close to 400 students majoring
in Chinese and English Language studies to enable them to
enhance their language proficiencies. In addition, almost
200 students in other disciplines had the opportunity to travel
to mainland China and Taiwan, as well as to other countries
overseas, including France, New Zealand, the USA and the UK
for study visits.
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