EDB Launches Blueprint for Digital Education Development in Primary and Secondary Schools to Enhance Students' Digital Literacy

EDB announces Blueprint for Digital Education Development in Primary and Secondary Schools

The Education Bureau (EDB) today (June 17) announced the Blueprint for Digital Education Development in Primary and Secondary Schools compiled by the Curriculum Development Council (CDC), which provides a clear guiding direction and implementation strategies for promoting the digital transformation of education in primary and secondary schools across Hong Kong in the future. It aims to enhance students' digital literacy and equip the younger generation to seize the opportunities and meet the challenges of the digital era.

In line with the recommendations of the Steering Committee on Strategic Development of Digital Education, the Blueprint proposes "Four Key Focuses, Ten Strategies", driving forward along four key development directions, namely, "nurturing talent with both digital literacy and humanistic qualities", "strengthening teacher training to drive digital transformation of education", "optimising infrastructure to build smart campuses", and "promoting cross-sector collaboration to co-create a digital education ecosystem".

The Blueprint focuses on AI education, providing clear guidelines for the school sector across comprehensive dimensions such as overall school planning, teacher training, student development, infrastructure optimisation, as well as exchange and collaboration. Grounded in the four key development directions, the Blueprint proposes 10 strategies with the relevant recommendations outlined below:

(I) Nurturing talent with both digital literacy and humanistic qualities

• Formulate the AI Literacy Learning Framework for Primary and Secondary Schools to systematically cultivate students' knowledge, skills and proper values related to digital technology

• Strengthen mathematics, science and technology education to enhance students' innovation and technology (I&T) capabilities (to launch the Information Technology and I&T Curriculum Framework for Primary Schools in 2026/27 school year, etc)

• Integrate learning elements related to digital education into the primary and secondary curricula organically, promote the "AI+Curriculum", and issue the Guide to Using AI in Teaching in Primary and Secondary Schools

(II) Strengthening teacher training to drive digital transformation of education

• Formulate teacher professional training requirements for digital education (to complete a minimum of 30 hours of training related to digital education within each three-year cycle of the Continuing Professional Development)

• Provide tiered, diversified professional development activities in digital education to strengthen schools' professional capacity to lead change and pedagogical innovation (to offer more than 50 000 training places each year)

(III) Optimising infrastructure to build smart campuses

• Promote the development of smart campuses and actively explore how AI can assist schools in handling administrative work, to reduce workload, enhance capacity, and improve school governance and efficiency

• Leverage the enhanced School Development and Accountability Framework to drive school improvement and enable schools to refine their implementation of digital education

• Strengthen support services, provide resource support, and build a comprehensive platform for digital education learning resources (to set aside $2 billion in the Quality Education Fund for support)

(IV) Promoting cross-sector collaboration to co-create a digital education ecosystem

• Promote home-school co-operation to co-cultivate proper values and good attitudes in students

• Bring together various stakeholders, including professional bodies, to jointly build a digital education ecosystem for primary and secondary schools (including exchanges and co-operation with the Mainland and internationally)

The EDB today also disbursed a one-off grant of $500,000 to all publicly funded schools to launch a three-year AI for Empowering Learning and Teaching Funding Programme, to plan school-based AI-empowered education measures and organise AI teacher training courses covering various levels, providing comprehensive support for schools to implement digital education. Schools should incorporate digital education into school development plans and/or school annual plans in the next school year (2026/2027) with reference to the Blueprint and relevant curriculum documents and formulate school-based implementation strategies.

The Secretary for Education, Dr Choi Yuk-lin, said, "The EDB welcomes the Blueprint compiled by the CDC, which aligns closely with the EDB's strategic planning to connect with the National 15th Five-Year Plan and the trend of 'AI + Education'. The Blueprint, in conjunction with measures such as the AI for Empowering Learning and Teaching Funding Programme, will enable Hong Kong's education to stay at the forefront of the times with a dynamic and forward-looking mindset. The restructuring of education in the digital age is a systemic transformation. We are not only focusing on hardware upgrades, but also actively promoting a deep shift in teaching and learning paradigms and comprehensively implementing AI education for students.

"The EDB will study the strategies and measures proposed in the Blueprint and looks forward to continuing to work hand in hand with the school sector and relevant stakeholders to help students make good use of technology to realise their dreams, jointly writing a new chapter in Hong Kong's school education and making a contribution to building China into a leading country in education and cultivating future talent."

The Blueprint for Digital Education Development in Primary and Secondary Schools and the Supplements have been uploaded to the EDB's website (www.edb.gov.hk/en/DEBP) for schools, teachers, and public viewing.

The Education Bureau today (June 17) announced the Blueprint for Digital Education Development in Primary and Secondary Schools compiled by the Curriculum Development Council (CDC). Photo shows the Chairperson of the CDC, Professor Isabella Poon, introducing the key focuses and implementation strategies of the Blueprint. Source: HKSAR Government Press Releases

The Education Bureau (EDB) today (June 17) announced the Blueprint for Digital Education Development in Primary and Secondary Schools compiled by the Curriculum Development Council (CDC). Photo shows (from left) the Principal Assistant Secretary (Innovation Technology Education) of the EDB, Ms Edith Tse; the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Hong Kong Education City, Mr Armstrong Lee; the Chairperson of the CDC, Professor Isabella Poon; the Chairperson of the CDC Standing Committee on STEAM Education, Professor Ng Tai-kai; CDC member Ms Lee Yi-ying; and the Principal Education Officer (Innovation Technology Education and Quality Assurance) of the EDB, Dr William Lam, attending the press briefing. Source: HKSAR Government Press Releases

The Chairperson of the Curriculum Development Council, Professor Isabella Poon (second left), submitted the Blueprint for Digital Education Development in Primary and Secondary Schools to the Secretary for Education, Dr Choi Yuk-lin (second right), today (June 17). The Under Secretary for Education, Dr Sze Chun-fai (first right), and the Principal Assistant Secretary (Innovation Technology Education) of the Education Bureau, Ms Edith Tse (first left), were also present. Source: HKSAR Government Press Releases

Housing Authority's estimated PRH allocation for 2026/27 records yearly increase of over 6 000 flats with estimated number of flats to be allocated to PRH applicants reaching 10-year high

The following is issued on behalf of the Hong Kong Housing Authority:

The Subsidised Housing Committee (SHC) of the Hong Kong Housing Authority (HA) today (June 18) approved the estimated public rental housing (PRH) allocation for 2026-27 and noted the actual allocation in 2025-26.

Estimated allocation surges as public housing production heads for breakthroughs

A spokesman for the HA said that the HA's actual allocation in 2025-26 has reached a total of 28 280 flats. Under the current-term Government's unremitting efforts to "enhance speed, quantity, quality and efficiency", the PRH production forecasts in 2026-27 will significantly increase by 44 per cent (i.e. about 6 900 flats) as compared with the previous year, bringing the estimated number of PRH flats available for allocation to approximately 34 500 (including about 14 600 new flats and about 19 900 recovered flats). The overall estimates are over 15 per cent higher than the estimates in 2025-26, of which the number of new flats has increased by 66 per cent (i.e. about 5 800) in comparison with the previous year.

Among the flats available for allocation in 2026-27, 26 750 flats (i.e. 77.5 per cent) will be allocated to PRH applicants. This represents an increase of over 70 per cent as compared with the annual average of 15 700 flats for the past three years before the current-term Government assumed office. Meanwhile, the estimated number of flats to be allocated to PRH applicants has reached a 10-year high.

Sufficient flats reserved for clearance and redevelopment

As regards other categories of applicants, the HA will reserve 1 300 flats for rehousing residents affected by clearance projects planned by various departments, and residents affected by other Government's squatter clearances, emergency clearances, unauthorised rooftop structure clearances and so forth. Among them, 300 flats will be set aside for rehousing residents affected by the Urban Renewal Authority's redevelopment projects scheduled for 2026-27.

Meanwhile, the HA will also reserve 1 150 flats under the category of the HA's Estate Clearance and Major Repairs to facilitate the clearance programmes of Wah Fu Estate, Choi Hung Estate, Sai Wan Estate and Ma Tau Wai Estate.

Making every effort to cater for Compassionate Rehousing and flexibly reserve flats to meet transfer needs

In the past, the HA has long handled all demands for Compassionate Rehousing (CR) as recommended by the Social Welfare Department without setting any upper limit. The HA will reserve 300 flats for allocation under the CR category in 2026-27.

Under the category of Transfers, an estimate of 4 000 flats will be reserved for various transfer purposes in 2026-27, among which a quota of 1 300 will be used for the transfer of under-occupation households so that more large flats can be recovered for easing the pressing demand of applicants with four or more household members. Moreover, the HA will reserve around 1 000 flats for the Transfer Scheme for Improving the Living Environment. The remaining 1 700 flats will be flexibly deployed for other transfer purposes, including Special Transfer, the Harmonious Families Transfer Scheme and transfers under the Full Rent Exemption Scheme for Elderly Households.

For the category of Junior Civil Servants, the HA will continue to reserve 1 000 flats under the Civil Service Public Housing Quota Scheme in 2026-27.

Efficient use of resources for flexible allocation

The HA makes annual projections of the supply of PRH flats that can be allocated in the coming year and how such flats will be allocated to the various categories of demands. The HA will closely monitor any changes in society and maintain flexibility in the allocation of PRH flats to optimise the use of resources.

The breakdown of estimated allocations for various categories in 2026-27 is available in the Annex.

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