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[email protected] Website: http://web.edu.hku.hk/community/school-university-partnerships Partnership Forum 2017 Implementing a New Model of School - University Partnerships – Reflections and Impacts Copyright © 2017. Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong. All rights reserved. Foreword I am delighted to welcome friends and colleagues from our Professional Partnership Today, partner schools gather on this remarkable annual occasion of the Partnership Forum Schools (PPS) and from the wider educational community to this year's Partnership to celebrate and enjoy the fruit of professional exchanges led by the Faculty of Education of The University of Hong Kong. We are delighted to see the success of this platform and its Forum. This annual Partnership Forum is one of the most important events in positive impact on the continuous improvement in schools. our calendar, providing the opportunity for engagement with key stakeholders to The Partnership Forum shares the same beliefs as our Committee on Professional share experiences and explore issues relating to School-University Partnerships Development of Teachers and Principals (COTAP), which is firmly committed to fostering and teacher professional development. I am very sorry that I will not be able to join a vibrant teaching profession of excellence in Hong Kong. In response to society’s high you in person at this year's Forum, particularly because this will be the last Forum expectations on our teaching profession, COTAP has initiated the drafting of a unified set of standards for teachers and school leaders under the overarching “T-excel@hk” project.