The Department of Early Childhood Education welcomed teachers, centre leaders and researchers to the Tai Po campus for a two-day symposium on play in the early years. Around 200 colleagues from kindergartens, childcare centres and universities across the region took part.
The Department hosted a half-day forum on school self-evaluation, bringing together principals, Education Bureau officers and researchers to ask a blunt question: does the current cycle of self-evaluation and external review actually improve teaching?
The Faculty of Education and Human Development welcomed delegates from across the region and further afield to a two-day symposium on teacher education, held at the Tai Po campus.
The Department of Curriculum and Instruction and colleagues from across the Faculty held a joint forum on curriculum reform, bringing practitioners and researchers into the same room to compare notes on how reform is experienced on the ground.