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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.

This record series contains randomly selected samples of the meeting records of the Board of Examiners of the School of Foundations in Education.

Usually, every School or Faculty in EdUHK has it's Board of Examiners. The role of the Board shall be:

(a) to assure the overall academic standard of the programme for which the Board is responsible;

(b) to assure fair and consistent assessment of academic performance of students and to adjudicate any cases with irregularities;

(c) to consider the overall performance of students, and approve the assessment results of modules;

(d) in accordance with the General Academic Policies and Regulations, to determine the remedial work for problem/failure cases and cases of extenuating circumstances that need special consideration, and to determine cases for discontinuation of studies;

(e) to recommend the lists of graduates for the award of degrees and other academic awards to the Faculty Board/ Higher Degrees Committee/ Academic Quality Assurance Committee for endorsement;

(f) to report its decision on students' progression and assessment to the Faculty Board/ Higher Degrees Committee/ Academic Quality Assurance Committee;

(g) to set up a Core Team to act on its behalf;

(h) to form a panel to hear discontinuation case(s), if necessary.

This series consists of records generated, received or accumulated by the research and administrative activities of the Office, which mainly document HKIEd’s strategic development planning, working progress on University title, HKIEd academic development, UGC visits and the organisation of strategic events such as senior management retreat and roundtables of presidents of universities of education.