The content of Education Television programmes will be updated to cater for changes under the new senior secondary structure.
ETV programmes, run by RTHK and the Education and Manpower Bureau, will this year introduce a series on liberal studies, a compulsory subject under the new academic system. A programme for teachers, Education Magazine, will also be launched.
Forever Sze Wing-yuen, controller of ETV, said yesterday the initiatives were being carried out partly in response to the findings of an RTHK-commissioned survey on the role of the programmes under the new senior secondary structure, to be implemented in 2009.
The survey by City University academics canvassed the views of 510 teachers in March. It found 86.9 per cent of teachers said ETV should aim at making learning more interesting. Nearly 84 per cent considered it important for programmes to give support to teachers.
Mr Sze said Education Magazine would offer tips on teaching methodologies and resources. Its debut on Monday will introduce the Education and Manpower Bureau's Kowloon Tong Education Services Centre as a resource centre for teachers. The programme will run four times a week, and content will be updated every two weeks.
The new initiatives would not push up costs, said Mr Sze. RTHK is receiving HK$35 million from the bureau this year for developing the programmes.