The Quality Education Fund is mandated to support and pioneer innovative projects that bring forth quality education. The Fund is proud to launch, and to see to the fruition of the Chief Executive's Award for Teaching Excellence Scheme which opened to teachers in language teaching in the first round.

In the Award, we received more than 250 good quality nominations from primary, secondary, special schools and kindergartens. We underwent a vigorous process to select accomplished teachers who demonstrate exemplary teaching practices. These teachers will form an assembly to facilitate sharing of good practices and foster changes in the teaching culture.

My congratulations to all awardees for their outstanding achievements. My deepest gratitude also goes to my distinguished colleagues who serve on the Chief Executive's Award for Teaching Excellence Sub-committee; Assessment Working Group and its four panels on English Language Education, Chinese Language Education, Language Development for Students of Kindergartens and Language Education (Special Needs); Publicity and Public Relations Working Group; as well as Dissemination and Networking Working Group. The Award would not be a success without the hard work and unfailing support of all those concerned, and the keen participation by the school sector.