A $1.5-MILLION research project will start next week in an effort to improve co-operation between parents and teachers.
Hongkong University, which outbid five other tenderers, signed the contract yesterday for the research commissioned by the Education Department's Committee on Home-School Co-operation.
''This is a very important research because at present there is limited information about parent-teacher associations in Hongkong, which is important in improving students' development,'' said the committee's chairman, legislator Tik Chi-yuen.
''We hope the research will give direction on what the committee can do to enhance home-school co-operation.'' An Assistant Director of Education, Tsui See-ming, said the research would form the basis of future policy on home-school co-operation.
The first part of the research - a series of group discussions with headmasters, teachers, parents and other parties - will start on Thursday.
Discussion results will determine the orientation of 16 main questionnaires proposed for 190 kindergarten, 145 primary, and 115 secondary schools, which represent a quarter of the schools in Hongkong.