About the Faculty

Educating Hong Kong's teachers, psychologists and education leaders since our founding as a teacher training college

Our mission

The Faculty of Education and Human Development prepares the teachers, psychologists, counsellors and education leaders who shape how Hong Kong learns — from a child's first words in a kindergarten to the policy decisions taken for a whole school system.

Our five departments cover the full arc of that work, and they are deliberately kept close together: a study of early literacy changes how a curriculum course is taught, a counselling placement changes how a policy module is written. We measure ourselves by what our graduates do once they leave, and by whether the research we publish reaches the classrooms it was written about.

The Faculty beyond the campus

220

Partner schools and kindergartens

12,000+

Alumni working in Hong Kong education

HK$68M

Research funding awarded in 2025/26

Our five departments

A Curriculum and Instruction teaching session

Department of Curriculum and Instruction

Subject pedagogy, curriculum design and assessment, from primary to senior secondary.

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Department of Early Childhood Education

Development, play and language in the first six years, and the kindergartens behind them.

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Department of Education Policy and Leadership

School governance, principalship and the policy that shapes Hong Kong's education system.

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Department of Psychology

Developmental, educational and applied psychology, from the laboratory into the classroom.

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A special education and counselling session

Department of Special Education and Counselling

Inclusive education, counselling and the support that keeps every learner in the room.

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From the Dean

Professor Leung Chi Keung

“A faculty of education is judged by what happens in classrooms it will never see. That is why we put our students into schools early, keep our researchers close to the people they study, and treat a partnership with a school as a long conversation rather than a project with an end date.”

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How the Faculty took shape

September 1994

One Faculty out of many colleges

The teacher education work of Hong Kong's colleges of education is brought together under a single institution, and the Faculty's founding departments take shape.

September 2004

Research degrees begin

The Faculty admits its first MPhil and PhD candidates, and research supervision becomes part of every department's work.

September 2010

Five departments

The Faculty settles into its present shape: curriculum and instruction, early childhood education, education policy and leadership, psychology, and special education and counselling.

May 2016

University title

The institution is granted university title, and the Faculty's degrees are awarded under the new name.

September 2021

The Innovation Hub opens

A shared space where staff, students and partner schools prototype new pedagogies and classroom technology before they reach a real class.

Teaching that starts in a classroom

Every initial teacher education programme in the Faculty is built around time in a partner school, supervised jointly by a University tutor and a school mentor. Coursework follows the placement rather than the other way round.

How teaching is supported

See the Faculty for yourself

Programme information, entry requirements and campus visits — or simply write to us and ask.

Explore our programmes

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