Background information about the Hong Kong Academy for Gifted Education

The Academy is a non-profit making organisation to provide structured educational services for the exceptionally gifted students as well as to support teachers, parents and academics in the endeavour.

It will target at providing off school learning opportunities for gifted youths from 10 to 18 to enable them to stretch their potential in a wide range of specialist areas, leadership, creativity, personal-social competence, and to promote whole-person development as well as to develop their confidence in pursuit of excellence and commitment to serving the community.

It will also help to provide guidance to parents of gifted students, as well as training courses for teachers in specialist areas. Besides, the Academy will conduct research conducive to a sustainable growth and advancement of knowledge in gifted education in Hong Kong.

The Academy is scheduled to operate in the 2007/08 academic year.