ABSTRACT
Globalization and changes in information processing during the last two decades have had a great impact on education systems and organizations. Hong Kong policy necessitates that schools transform into learning communities so as to meet the expectations of their stakeholders. In the year of 2003, the Education Bureau revised the two-pronged approach to quality assurance of education in Hong Kong and introduced the School Development and Accountability (SDA) Framework. School self-evaluation (SSE), complemented by external school review (ESR), and helps promote continuous self-improvement in schools through the planning-implementation-evaluation (PIE) cycle. The implementation of the SDA Framework involves a change of school culture and a change of general practices in school lives. Based on the recommendations of the report on the review of the Education Department, the Hong Kong government successfully merged the Education and Manpower Bureau (EMB) with the Education Department (ED) in 2002.
