EDB Education Bureau Scholarship For Prospective English Teachers 2014/15 Hong Kong

Name of the Organization : Education Bureau
Type of Facility : Scholarship For Prospective English Teachers 2014/15
Location : Hong Kong
Country : China
Website : http://www.edb.gov.hk/en/teacher/qua…her/index.html

Related : EDB Education Bureau Teacher Registration Hong Kong : www.statusin.org/3607.html

Scholarship For Prospective English Teachers  :

1 :The Scholarship for Prospective English Teachers (the Scholarship) is set up by the Education Bureau, the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region as one of a series of measures to enhance the professionalism of English teachers in Hong Kong.

Deadline : 18 August 2014

The aim of the Scholarship is to attract persons proficient in English to pursue relevant local bachelor degree programmes and/ or teacher training programmes which will qualify them to become English teachers on graduation.

2 :The Scholarship for Prospective English Teachers is one of a series of measures to enhance the professionalism of English teachers in Hong Kong. It aims to attract persons proficient in English to pursue relevant local bachelor degree programmes and/or teacher training programmes which will qualify them to become English teachers on graduation. The Scholarship for Prospective English Teachers is tenable for the normal duration of the intended study programmes. Upon graduation, awardees have to undertake to teach English full-time in primary or secondary schools in Hong Kong (day schools offering a formal curriculum). For awardees on undergraduate degree programmes, the duration of teaching obligation is three years.

3 : “The Scholarship” will be open for application from 8 to 18 August 2014. Only applicants who will pursue relevant study programmes starting from the 2014/15 school year are eligible to apply for “the Scholarship”. Hence, schools are requested to notify students who are interested in “the Scholarship” of its details so that students could be reminded to reprioritise their JUPAS programme choices, if necessary, after the release of results for the Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education (HKDSE) Examination. The list of relevant study programmes is available on the website of the Education Bureau (http://www.edb.gov.hk > Teachers Related > Qualifications, Training and Development > Training > Scholarship for Prospective English Teachers).

4 :In this connection, please draw the attention of your students who will graduate from secondary school in 2014 to “the Scholarship” and kindly distribute to them copies of the attached letter (Annex 1), the Information Sheet (Annex 2), the Application Form (Annex 3) and the Recommendation Form (Annex 4).

Download Form Here : https://www.statusin.org/uploads/3566…une%202014.pdf

Enquiries :
For further information about “The Scholarship”, please contact Ms Louisa YUNG (Tel. 2892 5760) or Mr Hyman WONG (Tel. 2892 5492) of the Professional Development and Training Division, Education Bureau