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EPL is Launching a Brand-new Master of Arts Programme in Leading Innovative Learning Organizations (LILO)

The LILO programme is Hong Kong’s first-ever master’s degree specialising in innovation, leadership and education. It envisions to empower future leaders in schools and educational services organisations with the capacity to initiate and sustain innovation for improved leadership practice. The LILO experience, featuring innovative learning, professional networking and flexible delivery, will bring participants’ professional perspective to the international level for understanding the best practices globally and applying them locally. Also, the programme will equip participants with an entrepreneurial mindset that can enable educational leaders to capitalise on the novel opportunities for the vision of future-oriented education.

For the intake of 2021, a total of 12 scholarships are available for adding prestige to your professional profile. Please email your name, job position and contact number to lilo@eduhk.hk. We will be in touch for more details!

The IELC is a part-time and online postgraduate programme targeting aspiring and practising leaders in the international schooling sector. We are delighted to announce that IELC participants are eligible for the Dean’s Postgraduate Entrance Scholarship and the Dean’s Postgraduate Academic Scholarship. The value of each scholarship is 25 per cent of the full programme tuition fee or HK$30,000. Applicants for the scholarships will be assessed on leadership qualities, including potential for leadership and/or leadership experience. For more information, please visit the IELC website (https://www.eduhk.hk/ielc/) or contact our programme team (ielc@eduhk.hk).

The MEd area of focus offered by EPL, which attracts quite a number of serving and aspiring school leaders and practitioners each year, is among the most successful and popular programmes at the EdUHK. To keep pace with the theoretical development in the leadership area and to be better aligned with the strategic goal of EPL, our MEd programme will be re-structured under the new name of 'Educational Leadership'. The new specialisation will encompass and integrate the three strength areas of EPL - leadership, policy and teacher and school development and include some brand-new courses such as School Evaluation and Improvement and Policy Planning and Change in Education.

EPL has offered a newly-developed EdD specialisation programme in Leadership for Future Schools.

Rapid social and educational changes have given rise globally to multiple and unprecedented changeless to the capacities of teachers, school leaders and policymakers. Against this background, the programme envisages current and future school leaders to comprehend, critique and apply theories and research findings with update-to-date literature to inform the improvement of policy and practice.

Drawn on expertise of EPL in education policy, educational leadership, as well as teacher and school development, this specialisation provides an academically rigorous approach that equips participants with analytical skills, in-depth theoretical understanding and research tools to make a positive impact in policy and practice locally, regionally, and internationally. If you are interested in our EdD specialisation, please contact Programme Coordinator Dr. CHEN, Junjun via epl-edd@eduhk.hk or phone number 2948 7637.

EPL offers a series of professional development programmes in different disciplines for enhancing teacher professionalism.

• Civic, National and Moral Education in Schools
• Communication, Mediation and Complaint Management
• Complaint Management for Kindergartens: Communication and Mediation
• Deputy Heads in Primary Schools
• Middle Leaders in Schools
• Organization and Management of Life-wide Learning Activities
• Practical Legal Knowledge for Kindergartens
• Practical Legal Knowledge for Schools
• Prevention and Handling of Unruly and Delinquent Behaviours in Schools
• School Improvement and Leadership

To apply, applicants should be:

• an in-service primary, secondary or special school teacher. Some programmes have special requirement for the job position.
• recommended by school principals.

The application deadline is two weeks before the programme start.

In addition to the Course Orientation (1 hour), the Course consists of three major components:

A. 6 Learning Modules (75 Hours)

1. Strategic Direction and Policy Environment
2. Learning, Teaching and Curriculum
3. Teacher Professional Growth and Development
4. Staff and Resources Management
5. Quality Assurance and Accountability
6. External Communication and Connection to the Outside World

B. 3 sessions of Action Research (9 Hours)

C. Optional Seminars and School Visits

Participants will be invited to optional seminars and school visits in January to September.

Admission:

All serving teachers and educational practitioners with 1) five or more years of teaching experience and 2) a recognised teacher training qualification are eligible to apply to the Programme.