This file includes memoranda and meeting notes regarding the establishment of the Institute of Language in Education, which was overseen by the Working Party on Institute of Language in Education. College members of the Working Party on Colleges of Education were invited to comment on the proposal for the establishment of an Institute of Language in Education under the Education Department.

It also includes correspondence between the Joint College of Education Students Union and the Education Department regarding employment opportunities for college students in 1980.

The Refresher Course for Panel Chairpersons focused on helping the participants to better equip themselves for the duties of an English Panel Chairperson. Towards the end of the course, the participants would be arranged to visit international schools in order to see:

• how English was taught to non-native -speakers in another system; and
• how another English department was run, from a management point of view. Or, more broadly, to observe:
• issues related to “language across the curriculum”;
• resources and facilities for English language teaching.

This file includes correspondence between the English Department and international schools in Hong Kong regarding arrangements for participants to visit the schools. The visits had been part of the curriculum since the refresher course was launched in 1991.