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In the light of the many new developments in the tertiary
sector and the education system in Hong Kong, the Institute
will experience a number of unprecedented staff changes, in
particular, of its senior management in the years to come.
With the solid foundation of the Institute built up by senior
management and staff members over the years, I anticipate
that the Institute will be able to further develop itself
into a stronger and more resilient institution in spite of
the personnel changes.
In response to the reduction in student numbers
pertaining to the declining schooling population, the Institute
will continue its collaborations with the UGC, other UGC-funded
institutions, schools and educational organisations in formulating
strategies to meet the challenges. In order to better utilise
the facilities of the Institute, we welcome opportunities
to share our facilities and thereby create synergies and additional
income for the Institute. Examples include our offer of vacant
student hostels to students of the Chinese University of Hong
Kong as well as the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. This
will help alleviate the heavy demand for hostels under the
internationalisation regime while the Institute will be able
to generate additional income from this under-utilised resource.
Over the years, teachers have experienced increasing
workloads and work pressure which may or may not be caused
by the education reforms. The spread of unfavourable news
has inevitably discouraged teenagers from joining the teaching
profession. Fortunately, the government has introduced a number
of measures to alleviate teachers' work pressure. Among these
is the provision of additional capacity enhancement grants
which allow schools to recruit additional manpower support.
We at the Institute will endeavour to meet the external challenges
and are confident that we are able to recruit quality students,
both locally and from overseas, to meet the demand for new
teachers in the new arena. The Institute strongly believes
that we are best positioned to serve the education sector
and jointly we will bring the best education to the future
generations of Hong Kong.
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