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DEPARTMENTDepartment of Education Policy and Leadership
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Faculty of Education and Human Development
Department of Education Policy and Leadership
How education systems are governed, led and improved — and the people who do that work in schools.
Study with the Department
Inside the Department
Programmes & Curriculum
Degrees and short courses for school leaders and policy staff
Find your area of practice
Area of practice
Education Policy
Education Policy
How policies are made, tested and understood by those who live with them.
Area of practice
School Leadership
School Leadership
Preparing principals and middle leaders to run schools well.
Area of practice
Governance and Quality
Governance and Quality
School self-evaluation, accountability and how quality is judged.
Area of practice
Education Change
Education Change
Why reforms succeed or stall, and what helps them last.
Message from the Head
Education policy is decided far from classrooms and felt inside them. The Department studies that distance and prepares the people who work across it: school leaders, policy officers and researchers.
“Good policy is written with those who will carry it out.”
Head of DepartmentDepartment of Education Policy and Leadership
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The Department in numbers
4areas of practice, each with its own teaching and research
4levels of study, from undergraduate degrees to professional development
5departments in the Faculty, together on the Tai Po campus
3languages on this website: English, Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese
Study with the Department
Sub-degree to doctoral study, full-time and part-time. Each level builds the knowledge and judgement that school leadership and policy work call for.
Professional development
Short courses and school-based support for serving leaders
From the Department
What's on this term
Open Day — Department of Education Policy and Leadership
Tai Po campus · drop-in
Policy Forum — The Future of School Self-evaluation
Tai Po campus
Reading Group — Leading Schools Through Change
Tai Po campus
Principals' Roundtable
Tai Po campus · registration opens in January
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Hear the policy conversation
Why school leadership matters most in the first five years
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Who we work with
Policy and curriculum
School governance partners
Leadership development
Regional and international studies
