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How do we know if an Education Reform is Successful? –
Insights from European and Asian Education Innovations

18 Jan 2013

A Public Forum

Many countries around the world have launched major education reform and innovation initiatives since the 1990s so that schools can better prepare our younger generation for life and work in the 21^st century.  Hong Kong has also launched its comprehensive education reform at the turn of the new millennium, focusing on lifelong learning and learning to learn.  In the Forum, the following questions will be addressed:

• How do we know if the education reform is successful?
• How do we know what we have achieved or failed to achieve?
• What can we learn from international and our own experiences, so as to better achieve our reform goals?

International and local studies have shown that the sustainability and scalability of educational innovations are even greater challenges than their successful initiation.  There are many case examples around the world where worthwhile innovations showing evidence of impact and effectiveness have not been sustained.  The European Commission (EC) is currently conducting a study on Up-scaling Creative Classrooms in Europe (SCALE-CCR) to identify features of scalable and sustainable innovations and critical success conditions.  As an integral part of this project, the EC has contracted the Centre for Information Technology in Education (CITE) within the Faculty of Education of The University of Hong Kong (HKU), to organize an Asia-Europe Expert Seminar to draw up a set of policy recommendations for educational policymakers, teachers, principals and other stakeholders for systemic mainstreaming of educational innovations, particularly those that are enabled by the use of ICT.

The Faculty of Education and CITE of HKU proudly presents a Public Forum on How do we know if an Education Reform is Successful? – Insights from European and Asian Education Innovations with details as follows:

Date:        January 23, 2013 (Wednesday)
Time:       5:30pm – 7:00pm
Venue:     Rayson Huang Theatre, HKU

Insight on the findings and recommendations will be given by Professor Cheng Kai Ming, Co-Convenor of Strategic Research Theme on Science of Learning of HKU; Dr Yves Punie, Senior Scientist of Institute for Prospective Technology Studies of European Commission; Professor Nancy Law, Director of CITE and Associate Dean of Faculty of Education of HKU; Dr Gwang-Jo Kim, Director of UNESCO, BKK; and Dr K K Chan, Deputy Secretary of Education Bureau of HKSAR.

For media enquiries and interview request, please contact Ms Queenie Wong, Development and Communications Manager, Faculty of Education, HKU (Tel.: 2219 4270 / Mobile: 9220 5840 / Fax: 2540 6360 / E-mail: qlpwong@hku.hk ).