School Development and Accountability

17.1 School Development Plans, Annual School Plans and School Reports

New (a) As a basis for continuous improvement of learning and teaching, aided schools are required to follow the developmental and evaluative activities as laid down in the enhanced School Development and Accountability framework.

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(b) Schools are required to set out clearly and enable public access to their strategic planning in the School Development Plans, stating the strategies and priorities for a period of time as specified by the Education Bureau.

(c) The implementation details and the annual reflection of achievements as blueprinted in the School Development Plans should be elucidated in the Annual School Plans and School Reports, and be made available for public access. Schools should also provide information on a number of key performance measures annually to their stakeholders. For schools which choose to report their key performance measures to the public, they should observe protocols established by the Education Bureau.

17.2 School Self-evaluation and External School Review

New (a) For purposes of supporting continuous school development and ensuring accountability for the quality of education delivered, schools are required to conduct rigorous and systematic, evidence-based school self-evaluation as an internal quality assurance process and preparation to external school review.

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(b) In conducting school self-evaluation, the Incorporated Management Committee should make good use of the set of key performance measures data, which is a tool developed to provide objective, balanced and quantitative data to support school self-evaluation in respect of the different aspects of schoolwork and student performance.

(c) The Incorporated Management Committee should also review and analyse the data on an annual basis, taking into consideration other useful qualitative information collected, to identify trends in performance and areas for strategic self-improvement in connection with schools’

developmental priorities, with the ultimate aim of improving the learning outcomes of students.

(d) External school review for schools will be conducted at regular intervals to complement the internal quality assurance mechanism. Schools should strive for continuous improvement through this external school review which is geared to

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providing them with evaluation and support.

17.3 Documents for Inspection and Public Access

New (a) In line with the requirements under the School Development and Accountability framework, schools should prepare School Reports to include a broad evaluation of their performance against the school performance indicators framework, including information on key performance measures, for external school review. Schools which have undergone external school review are required to provide the reports produced by external school review teams to their key stakeholders for reference. The Education Bureau may upload individual external school review reports on the Education Bureau homepage.

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(b) The Incorporated Management Committee should understand that the information collected for the purpose of conducting external school review is essential for the evaluation and support to be rendered. Schools are therefore required to provide the Education Bureau with the necessary school and student information and documents which are fundamental to the conduct of external school review.

17.4 Submission of Information Concerning School and Students

Schools are required to observe the timely and accurate submission of the information as and when required by the Education Bureau as laid down in the regulation 94 of the Education Regulations which stipulates that:

Education Regulation 94 New

“The management authority shall submit to the Permanent Secretary, whenever required by the Permanent Secretary, such information concerning the school or pupils thereof as may be required by the Permanent Secretary.”

17.5 Course of Study

Revised

[COA(Sec)/ The Incorporated Management Committee should

forward to the Permanent Secretary a notification of any

(Pri)/(Sp) –

Appendix 1] change in the course of study for the coming school year, not later than the first of September each year. The Permanent Secretary may withhold his approval of the whole course or any portion thereof, and the Incorporated Management Committee should thereupon modify it accordingly.

(updated on 1 September 2009)

18 Return of Grants

18.1 The Incorporated Management Committee is required to repay the Government the balance of any recurrent subsidy and non-recurrent subsidy which is unused at the time of any of the following events:

(a) Cessation of operation of the school:

Revised [COA(Sec)/

(Pri) – s.11;

COA(Sp) – s.10]

(i) If the sponsoring body of the school wishes to cease operation of an aided school, the Incorporated Management Committee should give to the Permanent Secretary at least six months’ notice in writing of such intention, and is required on the cessation of operation to refund to the Government the recurrent and non-recurrent grants or an equitable proportion of such grants as assessed by the Government;

Revised [COA(Sec) – s.74;

COA(Pri) – s.73;

COA(Sp) – s.79]

(ii) If, for any reason, a school ceases to be an aided school under the terms of this Code of Aid, the Incorporated Management Committee is required to return any unexpended portion of all kinds of subvention made to the school, and all other assets acquired through government funds to the Government as at the last day of operation. The Incorporated Management Committee must, within six months from the last day of operation of its school, also settle all outstanding liabilities and accumulated deficit of the school, if any, with its own funds, and submit to the Education Bureau an audited account for the period up to and including the last day of