The Student Affairs Office helps you to resolve personal, interpersonal, emotional, academic and domestic problems. Personal growth and development programmes in the form of group discussions, talks, workshops and training camps are organized to improve you general well being and self-sufficiency.

The Career Resources and Development Centre provides counselling services to help you understand your career interests or choices and map out your career path. Pre-employment training programmes, career education programmes and visits are also organized throughout the year.

Located on the 1st Floor of the Administration Building, the Student Health Service provides clinical and dental services to all students. It also organizes regular health education programmes in the form of seminars, talks, games and exhibitions. If you have queries about your personal health or hygiene, you may also approach the centre for advice.

We accord high importance to supporting the personal and professional growth of students by providing an enriched hostel life education programme. Through self-governance, hostel residents learn the skills necessary for independent and interdependent living. The Institute strongly encourages each pre-service full-time student on a programme of two years or more to live on campus for at least half of their time during their course of study in the Institute. All new students of these programmes are required to live on campus in their first year of study on a compulsory basis. If you cannot be residential due to special circumstances, you have to apply for exemption with the Head of Student Affairs at the time of registration.

There are four student hostels on Tai Po Campus, namely Northcote Hall, Grantham Hall, Robert Black Hall and the Jockey Club Student Quarters, providing about 1,900 residential places. The Northcote Hall, Grantham Hall and Robert Black Hall provide shared twin study-bedrooms and communal facilities including activity rooms, laundry rooms, and pantries. Each study-bedroom is also equipped with computer ports and telephone sockets. The Jockey Club Student Quarters comprise 7-person or 10-person flats, each with single/double/triple bedrooms, its own sitting/dining areas, terrace, kitchen, laundry room and bathrooms. A telephone line and individual computer ports are also provided. Only students of the same gender may live in the same study-bedroom/flat.

The lodging charge for 2005/06 residential year is HK$9,200 (tentative). Students in Northcote Hall, Grantham Hall or Robert Black Hall have to pay their own bedroom's air-conditioning and laundry charges while students in the Jockey Club Student Quarters have to share the flat's electricity charges.

Each student accommodation is under the leadership of a residential warden who is an academic/senior administrative staff of the Institute. Other residential hostel staff include a senior tutor and a manager. For further details, please visit SAO's website http://www.ied.edu.hk/sao/ or contact the Student Affairs Office.

We have good provision of indoor and outdoor sports and recreational facilities which are managed by the Department of Physical Education and Sports Science. At the Tai Po Campus, there is a sports hall that can be used alternatively as badminton courts, basketball courts, volleyball courts, or as a handball courts. Other facilities include a gymnasium for gymnastics, martial arts, fencing or judo training, a dance room, multi-purpose rooms, a well-equipped physical fitness room, squash courts, a table tennis room, a sport-climbing gymnasium and an indoor heated swimming pool. Outdoor facilities include a swimming pool, an artificial soccer pitch, a basketball court, a multi-purpose roof court and 4 tennis courts.

Along the Tolo Harbour highway, about midway between the University KCR station and the Tai Po Market KCR station, at Pak Shek Kok, the Hong Kong Institute of Education Sports Centre extends some 5. 3 hectares, consisting of a grandstand with covered seating for 1,200 spectators, a 400-meter all-weather track with facilities for field events, a grass soccer pitch, an artificial turf soccer/hockey pitch, 5 tennis courts, jogging path, a fitness room, a multi-purpose room and a newly built challenge rope course consisting of low and high elements.