Under Hong Kong’s education system, design education and training has traditionally been neglected. The mainstream secondary school curriculum gradually phased out design or art education in favor of general education and academic subjects during the 1990s. A new academic structure, the “3-3-4”, will be introduced in 2012, under which there will be 6 years of secondary school education followed by 4 years of university studies. This change will have huge implications for secondary and higher education, but design education is still largely excluded from the new secondary school curriculum. Currently, even though there are music, visual arts, technology and art and design subjects offered in some schools, there is over-emphasis on examination results and the grading process is often rigid and mechanical. In view of the paucity of art education in Hong Kong, the Culture and Heritage Commission (CHC) suggested in its report of 2003 that art education and creative learning be promoted in primary and secondary schools. It made a number of recommendations on how to nurture creative development among students, especially during their formative years, as well as making classes more interactive and dynamic starting from the primary level and incorporating art and art history courses into the curriculum, but unfortunately most of these suggestions were not taken up.Particularly, the Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education (HKDSE) only keeps Visual Arts and Design and Applied Technology as core electives, but Art subject is no longer an individual subject.Despite the government’s repeated claim to develop the creative industries, there is very little being done to improve art education in Hong Kong at the primary and secondary levels.