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This series consists of minutes/meeting notes, reports, correspondence, course outlines, prospectuses and publicity materials that are concerned with the marketing, admissions, registrations, and academic quality assurance and enhancement of two Postgraduate Diploma in Education (Primary) programmes organised by the School of Foundations in Education - the two-year part-time Postgraduate Diploma in Education (Primary) (PT PGDE(P)) programme and the one-year full-time Postgraduate Diploma in Education (Primary) (FT PGDE(P)) programme, between 1997 and 2004.

The PT PGDE(P) programme is the first postgraduate programme of the Hong Kong Institute of Education in which it admitted its first cohort of students in the 1998/1999 academic year, whereas the FT PGDE(P) programme was launched in the 1999/2000 academic year. The coordination of these two postgraduate programmes was taken over by the Faculty of Languages, Arts and Sciences in September 2005, when the Institute introduced a new academic structure.

The series comprises records relating to the programme administration of the Bachelor of Education (Honours) (Primary) (Three-year Mixed Mode) (also known as 3-Year MM BEd(P)) offered by the School of Foundations in Education (SFE) between 2000 and 2004.

The 3-Year MM BEd(P) programme was introduced in the 2000/2001 academic year as an add-on degree for holders of the Hong Kong Institute of Education's Certificate in Primary Education, In-service Course of Training for Teachers in Primary Schools and Certificate in Secondary Education.

This programme provided an alternative mode of attendance to the two-year full-time Bachelor of Education Programme implemented in September 1999, as it combined part-time evening and Saturday classes with full-time summer blocks in order to cater for teachers who work full-time. The coordination and delivery of this mixed mode programme was assumed by the Faculty of Languages, Arts and Sciences in the 2005/2006 academic year, when SFE ceased to exist. The programme admitted its last cohort of students in the 2014/2015 academic year.

This series consists of records relating to the development and review of full-time and part-time courses which were offered at the Colleges of Education, the Hong Kong Technical Teachers' College (HKTTC), and the Institute of Language in Education (ILE) between 1975 and 1988. The records include proposed syllabuses, minutes, memoranda, surveys, discussion papers and reports. Most of the records are concerned with the development and review of two full-time initial courses of teacher education which were introduced in 1980 – a new full-time three-year course and a restructured full-time two-year course. The three-year course was offered at the three Colleges of Education from September 1980, whereas the two-year course was first offered at Northcote College of Education from September 1980, then at Sir Robert Black College of Education and Grantham College of Education from September 1983 and September 1984 respectively. The rest of the records look at the curriculum of full-time courses in general, the planning and review of a course on the teaching of Putonghua at the three Colleges of Education, and the development of a part-time in-service course on the use of Chinese for secondary school teachers in teaching specific subjects for the ILE.

The series consists of both administrative and programme records of the Association of Lecturers at Colleges of Education dated 1966 to 1985, including meeting notices and minutes, constitutions, bank statements, financial reports, correspondence, newsletters, and members' lists.

In parallel with the Vision Statement, a Strategic Plan Working Group chaired by Dr KC Pang, the Deputy Director, was established in December 1997, with a mandate to develop a strategic plan for the Institute that would guide short-term and long-term developments and resource allocation.

The Working Group drew upon a large database of views from internal staff and external stakeholders collected through Delphi and SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats) analyses. These analyses, along with a number of open forums, helped shape decisions about the Institute's strategic direction in Strategy 2000: strategic plan for 1999-2004.

In April 2000, the Working Group on the Development of the Strategic Plan was renamed the Advisory Committee on Strategic Planning and Implementation (ACSPI) to better reflect its new focus on providing advice and support to the Directorate on issues relating to the implementation of Strategy 2000.

The Office of the Planning and Academic Implementation (PAI) served as the unit responsible for all logistical support and for carrying out the implementation work required by the Working Group.

Later, in April 2000, PAI Office's role shifted to supporting the Advisory Committee in modifying the "Strategy 2000" to account for contextual changes brought about by reforms in school and tertiary education (in particular, the wide-ranging reform proposals of the Education Commission).

In 2004, the Advisory Group on Strategic Planning (AGSP) was set up to gather expertise in different areas to as a “think tank” and advise the Senior Management on the future development of the Institute.

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.

This series currently consists of images of staff members and activities organised by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences between 2008 and 2009.