This series comprises records relating to the formulation, review and implementation of the HKIEd's Academic Development Proposals (ADPs). The core objective of submitting an ADP was to compete for excellence in resources, optimise the academic landscape and enhance international competitiveness within a stable institutional framework.

The records include proposals, supporting research, correspondence, minutes, statistical analyses and other planning documents relating to academic development. Topics include programme development, academic structures, staffing qualifications, academic strengths, teacher supply and demand, and the HKIEd's distinctive positioning within the higher education sector.

The records document multiple planning cycles and demonstrate the HKIEd's academic development strategies over time.

In March 2007, members of the Council, management, staff and student representatives held a retreat, uniting to work out strategies that would drive the Hong Kong Institute of Education’s development forward. A major resolution passed at the gathering included the working out of development plans. In line with the Institute’s application for a university title.

After the retreat, senior management set to work immediately, establishing a work group, which took charge to study the future educational needs of the education and wider community in Hong Kong, the Chinese Mainland and the Asia-Pacific Region; and the impact these needs would have on the role and positioning of the Institute. With the input of staff, students and the entire Institute community, as well as several rounds of workshops, forums and e-communications, plans proposed by the Work Group were eventually fine-tuned and articulated into a document called the Development Blueprint.

Includes minutes, discussion papers and memoranda, on the planning and post-implementation review of the Putonghua course, which was offered at the Colleges of Education to a selected group of students of the Full-Time Three-Year and Two-Year Courses from the 1986/87 academic year.

Includes questionnaires and statistical summaries of students' evaluation of the modules offered under the part-time Postgraduate Diploma in Education (Primary) programme in the 2003/2004 academic year.

File list:
Board of Examiners (external examiners information and reports) (19 March 2002 - 16 December 2002) [2 paper folders; file reference code: C2P035/064/01-03];
Board of Examiners. File 2. (8 March 2002 - 16 December 2002) [2 paper folders].

Includes meeting notes, correspondence and publicity materials related to the marketing and promotion, and the admission exercise of the part-time Postgraduate Diploma in Education (Primary) programme.

Includes the proposed syllabi of sixteen elective subjects of the new full-time courses offered at the Colleges of Education from September 1980.

Includes information of the proposed 4-year Full-time Pre-service Bachelor of Education (Primary) (Honours) course; and first drafts of Practicum Handbooks of the Teacher's Certificate (Full-time) course.

This file contains records documenting the planning, development, and review of a programme’s core curriculum. The records include papers of senior management meetings relating to core curriculum development, programme reports, module outlines, lists of primary school principals and their roles in programme implementation and module review papers.