To adopt Hong Kong Benchmarks to build quality Career and Life Development (CLD) provisions:
- To guide students to discover their competence, interests, value, attitude, skills, knowledge (VASK) and expanded notion of work (ENOW) for developing their personal goals and career roadmaps.
- To expose students to a wider range of careers
- To inform students, parents and teachers about the latest information about multiple pathways
- To help students ease the transition from secondary school to post-secondary studies/ and careers by infusing CLD elements in their curriculum learning
- To liaise partnership with alumni, tertiary institutions and non-government organizations to organize career-related experiences to students
- To build sustainable whole school CLD provisions
The Hong Kong Benchmarks ("HKBM") is a systematic framework serving as self-improvement tool for schools to strengthen career & life development provisions in a consistent and holistic manner. The HKBM consisting of 10 benchmarks, was co-created with CLAP's Global Advisor Sir John Holman, author of the UK's Gatsby Benchmarks. These benchmarks are of world-class standards and yet relevant to the contextual characteristics in Hong Kong local setting. The HKBM Pilot was launched in 6 network schools with diverse background in September 2019.