| As a University, one of our primary missions is to disseminate knowledge from one generation to the next, and to be a place for the communication of liberal ideas and thought. We nurture professional teachers and promote a learning society. We are devoted to the advancement of scholarship through knowledge creation and transfer. We actively foster partnerships with the wider educational community, in particular our schools. We are an evolving model of a university with a societal mission – one that contributes to lifelong learning and human betterment in Hong Kong, the Mainland and the region, where education has long been regarded as the principal engine of social progress and mobility. |
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Work in partnership with the education community to raise the professional status of the teaching profession in society. |
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Promote and support the early establishment of a General Teaching Council as the main statutory body for registration and professional development within the teaching profession. |
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Respond to the professional development needs of teachers and schools, in key areas such as early years education, the New Senior Secondary curriculum reform, assessment, pedagogical innovation, school-based management, and catering for diversity. |
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Strengthen links with the HKIEd Jockey Club Primary School and the HKIEd HSBC Early Childhood Learning Centre, and help them to serve as role models. |
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Strengthen our partnership networks with schools to support our Field Experience and internship schemes, and provide schools with support initiatives such as Demo Classroom and an Institute channel available through school broadcasting facilities. |
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Involve schools in our research projects and applied work, especially in longitudinal 'tracking' studies which evaluate student progress. |
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Provide training programmes to cater for the needs of members of school boards, teaching assistants and support staff in schools, as well as parents. |
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Strengthen our collaboration with education stakeholders, such as organizing the Hong Kong School Principals' Conference and Parent-Teacher Summit. |
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Engage and collaborate with the Education Bureau, and have regular sharing with education officials of views on curriculum and assessment reform, and of the findings of our research and applied work. |
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Undertake major tender courses and projects commissioned by Government. |
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Engage and collaborate with education-related statutory bodies and advisory committees. |
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Collaborate with associations of school principals, teacher associations, parent-teacher associations, school sponsoring bodies, education interest groups, arts and culture groups and non-government organizations. |
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Take the lead in promoting a 'learning society' through the whole array of our programmes and activities, including elder learning programmes and scholarship. |
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Expand our activities in the workplace context to engage in professional and pedagogical training for trainers as well as employees in different industrial and professional sectors. |
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Support and promote the preservation and study of Hong Kong's education heritage through the 'Hong Kong Museum of Education' on the Tai Po campus. |
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Open up campus facilities and activities to the wider community – such as the Library, the Museum of Education, sports and conferencing facilities, public lectures and seminars, and cultural and performing arts activities. |
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Develop the off-campus Study Centre as an integrated centre for educational programmes and resources, public lectures and seminars, and community education programmes. |
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Seek to influence education policy and practice through public seminars, forums and the dissemination of research-based policy papers. |
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Enhance communication and organize events which engage the public, and actively seek community support for the Institute through fundraising and other activities. |
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Collaborate with local and overseas organizations in promoting social change and human well-being as part of outreach activities. |
