Hong Kong and International Educational Policies: A Handbook - published by the Institute in 2001

Notably this year, two new refereed journals have been launched: the Asia Pacific Journal of Arts Education, which aims to promote and nurture arts education research in the region, and the Hong Kong Journal of Early Childhood, which offers early childhood professionals a forum in which to share their experiences, debate issues and publicise research findings. Both journals are published twice-yearly.

In addition, the Department of Science has published the refereed on-line journal - Asia Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching. This can be found at http://www.ied.edu.hk/apfslt/.

CRIC has joined with Kluwer Academic Publishers of the Netherlands to co-publish three books on teacher education. The first, New Teacher Education for the Future: International Perspectives was published in April 2001, followed in June that year by Teaching Effectiveness and Teacher Development: Towards A New Knowledge Base. The latter is an edited volume with 20 chapters prepared by 27 scholars from different countries. The last of the three, Subject Teaching and Teaching Education in the New Century: Research and Innovation was published in early 2002. It comprised 22 chapters by 36 scholars.

Meanwhile, CRIC, in co-operation with the Education Department, has produced a digest of major educational policies and recommendations in Hong Kong from 1965 to 2002. This digest, entitled Hong Kong and International Educational Policies: A Handbook was released in May 2002 and is a handy and essential reference for educators, policy makers, scholars and researchers.

	Two newly published journals: - the Hong Kong Journal of Early Childhood and the Asia-Pacific Journal for Arts Education

The Institute also sponsors a number of academic seminars, workshops and conferences which provide our staff with the opportunity to share their research findings with other academics, educators and professionals in the field.

Important examples this year were the annual seminar on Current Trends in Early Childhood Curriculum Development held by the School of Early Childhood Education in May and the International Language in Education Conference 2001, organised by the School of Languages in Education in December 2001.

These and many other events organised by the Institute reach out to the local academic and educational community and complement the international conferences reported in the Global Network chapter.