The Asia-Pacific Centre for Educational Leadership and School Quality is a research centre that facilitates and promotes research on education leadership, school quality and effectiveness and education innovations in the Asia-Pacific region, with a particular focus on Hong Kong.
Apart from research, the Centre’s activities include:
- organising leadership development programs
- organising conferences, workshops and training programs on education leadership and quality
- dissemination of research and evaluative studies
- establishment of quality indicators and benchmarks of education processes and practices in schools
- development of quality assurance mechanisms and measures
- publication of a journal of education leadership and school quality
- formation of networks such as the HK School Leadership Development Network
The Centre’s website is available in both English and Chinese and offers further information about its activities, projects and staff profiles. The full text of selected lectures as well as papers by staff members are available to download. Summaries and the table of contents of other publications by the Centre are also available.