Hong Kong is our campus
Our contribution to the community is wide ranging, from the provision of professional upgrading for teachers and school administrators to contributions to government education policy-making. Our staff participate in school management committees, work with teaching professionals and schools to disseminate knowledge to promote good practice and generate ideas that will assist schools and teachers in the improvement of school education.

Our Division of Continuing Professional Education has an extensive network of schools and is able to respond rapidly and flexibly to professional development needs. In the reporting year a total of 438 courses involving 12,720 participants were provided.

The Department of Educational Policy and Administration has been commissioned by the Education and Manpower Bureau (EMB) to provide training programmes for school principals. A variety of programmes is offered catering to the needs of serving and newly appointed principals of primary, secondary and special schools. A series of training programmes was commissioned by the World Bank, for school principals from Sri Lanka.

Our Centre for Citizenship Education is active in developing school-based curriculum packages on citizenship education. Two ongoing Quality Education Fund (QEF) projects the Centre is directing are Enhancement Schemes for the implementation of citizenship education respectively in primary and secondary schools. Both projects have the broad aim of promoting "child-centred" and "participatory" approaches in citizenship education using a range of activities to enhance teachers' awareness.

Students serving the community
It is not only staff who reach out to the community, our students are also active. In fact one example of our student community service, the "Sunshine in the Storm" project, has won the Best Practice Award in Social Welfare from the Hong Kong Council of Social Services.

This project involved 30 of our students working with young people who spend their nights on the street - Young Night Drifters. The project was co-organised by the HKIEd Student Affairs Office and the Hong Kong Children & Youth Services.