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HKU 100 Parade

It is with great excitement that we announce that The University of has begun celebrating its 100th Anniversary! The celebrations started in January 2011 and will continue for two years, until F

December 2012. To mark the official launch of the a

Centenary Celebrations, the HKU 100 Parade was c y t l u held on January 9, 2011 at the Stanley Ho Sports Centre. The Parade was a great occasion to gather F staff, alumni, students, and friends of the Faculty, students from three schools with which we have close connections, including Hong Kong Ling Liang o

together with representatives of the sectors we c serve, in a collective Church Kindergarten, HKUGA Primary School and s u show of support for the Lock Tao Secondary School, and participants in University’s birthday the Centre for Advancement of Chinese Language celebrations, and in Education and Research’s project for non-Chinese- celebration of our own speaking students. With the very generous donation membership of the of HK$10,000 from the President of the HKU Alumni wider Faculty family. Association, Mr Tse Sik Yan, the paraders were able Minority students to adorn themselves in splendid white Education Under a sunny sky with a warm breeze, the Faculty T-shirts and jaunty red bandannas! was extremely well represented. There were a total of 174 participants drawn from our staff, alumni and The Faculty would like to take this opportunity to thank current students, together with staff, parents and Mr Tse and all of those who came along to support the event and join in the start of our centenary celebrations. Let’s enjoy each moment of the Centenary.

Paraders from the Faculty and Ling Liang Church Kindergarten

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The Faculty Graduation task and seek every small success that is attainable, Ceremony 2010 in the knowledge that you’ll have a clear vision and clear goals. Every success, big or small, underpinned The Faculty held its graduation ceremony on with your selfless dedication, will inspire confidence December 13, 2010 in the Concert Hall of the Hong to do even better. The practical improvements you Kong Cultural Centre. The Faculty conferred degrees realize will touch the hearts of students and slowly upon a total of 851 graduands at the graduation build up a momentum of success that will bring ceremony, with 345 conferred higher degrees, you satisfaction 170 bachelor’s degrees and 336 the Postgraduate – a professional Certificate in Advanced Educational Studies and satisfaction that Postgraduate Diploma in Education. One award, you can be truly eleven prizes and four scholarships were also proud of.” presented to outstanding students on this occasion.

Tea Reception for Year 1 Students

At the beginning of the new year and new semester, the Faculty invited some Year 1 students from the Bachelor of Education, Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor The Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Provost of of Education and Postgraduate Diploma in Education HKU, Professor Roland Chin, presided over the programmes to a tea reception on January 28, 2011. Congregation, while Mr Lester G. Huang, JP, Partner The tea reception was kindly offered by one of our of P.C. Woo & Co. was the guest of honour. Mr alumni, Mr Tse Sik Yan, who wanted to give students Huang spoke to the graduates about the need for an opportunity to get along with each other, chat leadership at all levels in education. He shared with experienced educators, build friendships and his view that leadership in education is everyone’s have some fun. The students shared their views and business and that everyone in education should visions on teaching with our academic colleagues lead in one way or another. He went on to say that and guests at this friendly and informal gathering. frontline teachers have a particularly important role to play. Young people see their teachers as leaders and role models as they seek to discover themselves. He concluded, “The leaders in you will get on with the

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More details about the Lecture can be found at http:// A Dialogue with Sir John Daniel – web.edu.hku.hk/media.php?seminars_lectures. Lunch Seminar

On September 27, 2010, an invitational lunch the UK, including the Association of Teachers of Mathematics seminar entitled “Shortage of Teachers and (ATM), the Higher Education Academy and the British Society Internationalizing Teacher Education” was hosted for Research into the Learning of Mathematics. by the Faculty. Academics from the Faculty, senior officers from the Education Bureau and leaders of Professor Watson had many opportunities to meet and talk higher education in Hong Kong exchanged their with mathematics education academics, researchers and views on the educational systems and teacher research students, teacher educators and some teachers in education. the various activities organized by the Faculty. On January 19, 2011, Professor Watson gave a seminar about the shifts of understanding necessary to learn mathematics. During her teaching session with Postgraduate Diploma in Education students, Professor Watson got the students to rethink how Seminars for Faculty Staff and arithmetic can be seen as relations, and how it is these, rather Students than calculation methods, that provide the basis for further mathematics. Professor Watson learnt more about current issues A seminar entitled “An Educational Ecosystem for in mathematics education in Hong Kong and mainland the 21st Century: Putting the Pieces Together” was from the consultation sessions for individual PhD students. organized for Faculty staff and students on September From left to right: Dr S.C. Kong, Head, Department of Mathematics and Information Technology, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, HKIED; Professor 24, 2010. An informal seminar entitled “The Role Peter Kutnick, Chair Professor, Faculty of Education, HKU; Mr S.K. Leung, Delivering a public lecture entitled “Learner Differences in of Technology in In-service Teacher Education” was Principal Assistant Secretary, EDB; Professor Mark Bray, Chair Professor, Faculty of Education, HKU; Dr Catherine K.K. Chan; Deputy Secretary, Mathematics” on January 22, 2011, Professor Watson inspired held for staff of Centre for Information Technology in Curriculum and Quality Assurance, EDB; Sir John Daniel, President, all participants with her innovative ideas and expertise in Education on September 28, 2010. Commonwealth of Learning; Professor Frederick Leung, Faculty of Education, HKU; Mr Kenneth Chen, Under Secretary for Education, EDB; mathematics education, especially with regard to weak learning Professor S.K. Tse, Faculty of Education, HKU; Professor Janet Draper, Head, Department of Education Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, in mathematics. Two teachers also shared their inspiring HKBU; Professor Stephen Andrews, Dean of Education, HKU; Mr P.H. teaching experiences to deal with learner differences in local Cheng, Chairman, Advisory Committee on Teacher Education and Qualifications; Ms Queenie Wong, Development and Communications secondary schools in the lecture. Close to 130 participants Manager, Faculty of Education, HKU including tertiary educators, school principals, teachers and research students attended the lecture. Positive feedback was received from the audience. CANOTTA Distinguished Visiting Fellowship in More details about the public lecture can be found at http:// Mathematics Education 2011 web.edu.hku.hk/media.php?seminars_lectures.

The CANOTTA Publishing Co., Ltd. made a donation to the Faculty in 2008 to establish the 3-year CANOTTA Distinguished Visiting Fellowship in Mathematics Education. Professor Anne Watson was invited to visit the Faculty under the scheme from January 13-23, 2011.

Professor Watson is an expert in teaching and research on how teachers can work with diversity and yet develop strong mathematical engagement and thinking. She is a fellow of Linacre College and member of prominent academic organizations in

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Exhibition on Achievement Dissemination seminar on of Minority Students in “Development of Evaluation Learning Chinese Tools for Assessing Students’ Information Literacy and Funded by the EDB, the Faculty’s Centre for Promoting Information Advancement of Chinese Language Education and Literacy Among Students” Research (CACLER) undertook a project to support 25 secondary schools / NGOs and their ethnic It was a one-year project commissioned by the EDB. minority (mainly South Asian) students to improve Five secondary schools and five primary schools their learning of Chinese. were involved in this project, whose aims were to develop self-evaluation tools for assessing students’ Picture books are one of the best media for them information literacy skills in General Studies at to express their daily experiences and views on life primary school level and Science at secondary while they are learning to use Chinese. With artwork school level. A project website (http://iltools.cite. drawn by the students and simple expressions in hku.hk/) was also established to showcase some Chinese, the picture books told stories about the practical teaching strategies and approaches for students themselves, as well as their families and other the implementation of information literacy and relations. Some projected themes and feelings through assessment methods to the education community. surrealist stories of animals, plants or objects. The interplay between text and artwork stimulated readers to feel, imagine and reflect.

In order to pass their messages around, an exhibition of Chinese picture books created by ethnic minority students supported by the project was held on January 29, 2011 in Hui Oi Chow Science Building.

Dr Ida Mok (Associate Dean – External Relations/ International) of the Faculty and Mr Tse Sik Yan, The dissemination seminar was held on February 11, President of the HKU Alumni Association, were 2011 at Hong Kong Space Museum. This seminar guests of honour at the exhibition. With the help aimed to: of students from the Bachelor of Education (Liberal •• Introduce the information literacy (IL) framework; Studies) [BEd(LibSt)] and •• Showcase some teaching packages designed and Bachelor of Education in tried out in science classrooms to promote the Language Education (Primary development of the eight IL skills; and Junior Secondary •• Introduce the design and use of assessment Chinese) programmes, the rubrics and evaluation checklists for self- and ethnic minorities had a great peer-assessment; time telling the visitors about •• Share school-based experiences in this their work, becoming more curriculum and assessment project. confident in Chinese. The seminar was well attended by a total of 181 individuals, including both primary and secondary school teachers and principals, as well as officials from the EDB.

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of Understanding between Exchange l a n o i t a n r Faculty of Education, HKU and University of Potsdam As part of the ongoing collaboration between our Faculty and the Faculty of Education at Gothenburg University, two video conferences were successfully

held between Year 4 Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor C of Education student teachers. This was the result of s n o i t a r o b a l l o a proposal put forward at the Language Education Symposium held in May 2010.

The first video conference exchange took place on November 3, 2010 and, through the magic of video link-up, undergraduate students from our Faculty taught some mini-lessons that were watched live by a large group of student teachers and academic staff in a Gothenburg University lecture theatre. After The Vice President of the University of Potsdam, each group had finished their lessons, the Swedish Professor Ria de Bleser, visited the Division of students offered feedback on the microteaching Speech and Hearing Sciences under the Faculty and asked questions about the nature of teaching on January 3, 2011. The purpose of the visit was and learning English in Hong Kong. Issues such to sign a Memorandum of Understanding between as methodology, learning styles, class size, text the Faculty and the University of Potsdam. The books and general classroom discipline were all Memorandum of Understanding will enable students discussed via video, and students on both sides from the Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences to were able to gain a better understanding of each study at the University of Potsdam and students from other’s educational context. The second video Potsdam to study here in Hong Kong. conference was hosted by the Gothenburg students on December 15, 2010, and this time the students Professor de Bleser told us that one of the key exchanged a wide range of views and opinions on outcomes of the Erasmus Mundus programme is for testing and assessment in Sweden and in Hong Kong. students to learn about cross-linguistic differences in For the Gothenburg students, their presentations and the field of communication science. She remarked sharing represented part of a course assignment. that our undergraduate and postgraduate programmes Both sessions gave student teachers the chance to in the Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences interact and share their teaching experiences, and provide the ideal learning environment for EU a Facebook page was also set up to continue the students to engage in cross-linguistic studies, because dialogue and foster closer links between the two we offer courses conducted in English, Cantonese groups of students. and Mandarin. All students on the Erasmus Mundus programme come from non-EU countries (including The video conferencing was an experiment at this Hong Kong, and mainland China), which level, but both sides see the potential for future means that the Memorandum of Understanding will exchanges using this technology. enhance the international profile of the student body in the Faculty of Education at HKU. Upon signing the Memorandum of Understanding, Dr Lena Wong (Head of Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences) commented that this new partnership has the potential to strengthen cross-linguistic research in Speech and Hearing Sciences.

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3rd Association of Pacific The participants included: Dean Stephen Andrews Rim Universities Education (Chair), Professor Peter Kutnick and Dr Angel Lin Deans Meeting from The University of Hong Kong, HKSAR; Dean Karen Gallagher (Co-Chair) and Dr Margo Pensavalle The 3rd Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU) from the University of Southern California, USA; Education Deans Meeting was held in Hong Kong Dean Jong Wook Kim and Professor Sang-Hak

ollaborationson December 1, 2010. Dean Stephen Andrews of Jeon from Seoul National University, Korea; Dean HKU, host of the meeting, welcomed participants to Eiichi Miyakoshi and Mr Yoshifumi Shimizu from C the meeting, while Dean Karen Gallagher, University Tohoku University, Japan; Dr Ryoji Hoshika and of Southern California, a member of the APRU Dr Sejong Oh from the University of Tokyo, Japan; Education Deans Standing Committee, gave a short Dean Bambang Wibawarta from the University introduction to the Education Deans Meeting series. of Indonesia, Indonesia; Dean Saedah Siraj and She spoke briefly on the continuity of the series of

r n a t i o n a l Professor Fatimah Hashim from the University of APRU Education Deans Meetings and the idea of e developing a common research project theme to Malaya, Malaya; Dr Gilsun Song from Zhejiang n t

I which schools could contribute. Based on the ideas University, China and Ms Margaret Leong, Director developed at the last meeting, the project or series (Secretariat) & Treasurer of APRU. of projects could develop around the nature of the global learner and/or on the global educator/teacher. With the floor open for discussion, participants raised some comments and suggestions on the issue of globalization and its impact on teaching and learning, the interactions between new information technologies, and the codes of professional ethics of teachers in different countries. The opportunities for member universities to learn from each other and interesting topics on collaborative research projects were also explored. The meeting brainstormed the kind of information to be collected from member The theme for the meeting centred on the nature of universities to better understand each other, such as the “Global Teacher”, the understanding of “Global information about teacher education programmes, Learners”, and the resultant implications for teacher government priorities in teacher education, modes education. The meeting was divided into two parts: of funding, etc. To serve this end, the meeting Part A consisted of three presentations aimed at helping agreed that a template be designed for collecting to define the research themes, while Part B consisted information such as that listed above and other of a series of open discussions with the objective details as appropriate. of scoping a research topic for a joint collaborative research project by APRU member universities.

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Liaison with Asian Development Bank

Professor Gerry Postiglione co-chaired the Asian Development Bank (ADB) Symposium on “Regional Cooperation and Cross Border Collaboration in Higher Education”, which was held at the ADB Headquarters in Manila on July 5-6, 2010. As the Faculty has always considered itself a leader in the region, Professor Postiglione took this opportunity to explore the possibility of collaboration between the Faculty and the ADB.

IBO Recognition

Our Faculty’s Master of Education in Teaching Chinese as a Second Language (TCSL) has been given unconditional recognition by the International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO) as a programme which potentially qualifies graduates for Level 1 & 2 IBO Teacher Awards.

This represents a major strategic development for the Faculty, not only in the area of Chinese as a Second Language but as a first step towards closer On January 14, 2011, Mr Jouko Sarvi (Practice collaboration with the IBO in other subjects in Leader and Chair, Education Sector Committee and the IB curriculum, as well as in key areas such Community of Practice, Regional and Sustainable as educational leadership. We are only the tenth Development Department, Asian Development University in the world and the first in Asia to be Bank) and Mr Wolfgang Kubitzki (Senior Social recognized in this way by the IBO, so it represents a Sector Economist, Indonesia Resident Mission, Asian major achievement. Given the rapid increase in the Development Bank) visited the Faculty to discuss number of IB schools, both in Hong Kong and in the our potential impact on the education project in region, the Faculty is now very well placed to play a Indonesia. leading role in the professional development of their current and future teachers.

The IBO team, in their verbal report, gave us a very pleasing number of commendations. In particular, we were commended for the global vision of the Faculty and the international-mindedness of our staff.

From left: Mr Jouko Sarvi, Dr Ida Mok, Professor Cheng Kai Ming, Mr Wolfgang Kubitzki, Ms Queenie Wong and Professor Gerry Postiglione

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Seminar on “Evolving Asia from DPR Korea, Fiji, Laos, Malaysia, Mongolia, the and the Pacific Region – Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, the USA and the UK. Early childhood experts and PhD students from Challenges for Education” Hong Kong also participated. Professor Mark Bray, CERC’s Director and Professor Lau Yu Lung, Head of the The seminar by Mr Jouko Sarvi (Practice Leader and Department of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Chair, Education Sector Committee and Community gave the opening remarks and Professor Stephen of Practice, Regional and Sustainable Development Andrews, our Dean, gave the welcoming speech at the Department, Asian Development Bank), with the title opening reception. “Evolving Asia and the Pacific Region – Challenges for Education” was held on January 11, 2011. This The objective of the workshop was to move towards seminar was co-organized by the Wah Ching Centre developing a contextually relevant child development of Research on Education in China (CREC) and the measurement tool to serve as a common index/scale Comparative Education Research Centre (CERC). for the Asia-Pacific region. It is envisioned that this Professors Gerry Postiglione and Mark Bray co-chaired scale would be used for various purposes, including the seminar. population level assessments for monitoring progress towards national goals.

Training at World Health Organization (WHO) China Rehabilitation Programme in Conghua, , PR China

On June 12-13, 2010 Professor Brendan Weekes, Mrs Lorinda Kwan and two undergraduate Mr Sarvi’s presentation highlighted key challenges students, Elaine in the development of education in a region where Dai and Eric Lau economies and labour markets are rapidly evolving. of the Division of The Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) strategic and Speech and Hearing Sciences helped train 120 eager operational priorities for support for education are rehabilitation workers and doctors from all over China discussed. Approaches for sustainable development on speech therapy management of people with aphasia of education and its financing are analysed. The (a language disorder resulting from stroke). This training presentation stresses the importance of pursuing new programme in Conghua, Guangzhou, was part of a year- forms of partnerships, including with cutting edge long project hosted by the World Health Organization regional education expertise hubs such as HKU. China rehabilitation programme to keep abreast of the knowledge necessary for medical services to be delivered For highlights of the forum, please visit http://www. to people with brain damage. The programme updated hku.hk/chinaed/. the participants with the core content of the knowledge and advanced research studies related to aphasia and East Asia-Pacific Early the clinical management principles of this neurological Childhood Development communication disorder. Scale Development Workshop

This workshop was held on January 24-25, 2011, at HKU, led by Professors Nirmala Rao and Patrice Engle. The workshop was organized by the Asia- Pacific Regional Network for Early Childhood (ARNEC) and the Comparative Education Research Centre (CERC), HKU and sponsored by UNICEF East Asia and the Pacific Regional Office. The workshop brought together 34 participants, including delegates

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Programmes

The admissions activities for undergraduate and postgraduate programmes were held between October 2010 and January 2011. The programme directors and current students from the respective programmes shared at these occasions to introduce the participants to the Faculty, the curriculum and other programme- specific information.

Information Session for Doctor of Education on December 14, 2010

The Information Day for Early Admission Scheme Information Session for Master of Information Session for Bachelor of An admission talk for Non-JUPAS students from HKU SPACE (EAS) applicants on January 15, 2011 Education on January 15, 2011 Science in Information Management Community College on December 8, 2010 at the HKU SPACE on December 17, 2010 Kowloon East Campus

The Information Day for Undergraduate Admissions on October 30, 2010. A record high of over 60,000 visitors were received over the day

Education Expo in Shenzhen was also arranged and broadcast live to 12 different cities in China. The video conferencing provided a In order to promote our higher degree programmes great opportunity to introduce our programmes to to attract students of high calibre from the mainland, participants in different areas. It served as a platform the Faculty joined an Education for questions and answers. The event was a big Expo in Shenzhen on January 8, success, with most of the visitors at the information 2011 at Shenzhen Marco Polo counter showing an interest in our programmes. Hotel. Programme directors and coordinators delivered a presentation to the participants at the information session. Close to 80 participants attended the information session. A video conferencing session

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BSc(SPEECH) Students’ BEd(LibSt) Students’ Experience Holistic Experience in in Taiwan Singapore The study tour was organized by the Liberal Studies Miss Beatrice Chan and Services and Learning Network (LSSLN), a student support Mr Morris Poon went to network formed by a group of Bachelor of Education (Liberal Studies) students in 2010. The study team visited Singapore in August 2010 S for clinical placements at the National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU) and the d u t National Tsing Hua University (NTHU) from December Singapore Tan Tock Seng 19-22, 2010. The study team also had a chance to meet e Hospital and Singapore t n and exchange with the academics in the Centres of

National University Hospital N General Education and pre-service teachers from these respectively.

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Clinical Supervisor, Dr Leow Li- s Pyn (Left) at Singapore Tan Tock Beatrice learnt how to Seng Hospital evaluate and implement instrumental measurements. By attending a meeting for professionals from different disciplines, including medical doctors, psychologists, nurses, physiotherapists, occupational therapists and speech therapists, to discuss the progress and rehabilitation plans for each patient in the

rehabilitation centre of the hospital, Beatrice The exchange trip offered Liberal Studies undergraduates was impressed by the effort physiotherapists a golden opportunity to learn more about the design and occupational therapists put into and structuring of Liberal Studies/General Education incorporating the communication techniques in Taiwan universities. “Although the rationale and introduced by speech therapists in their curriculum of Hong Kong’s Liberal Studies and Taiwan’s sessions with each patient. General Education may differ, from the sharing of the teaching staff and students, it is observed that both of the During the clinical placement at Singapore two universities have integrated a wider range of study National University Hospital, Morris was areas and learning activities into the subject, in order to given ample opportunities to practice reading get a better achievement in all-rounded education. Their case notes, implementing communication and ways of organizing the subject are definitely a significant swallowing assessments, reporting findings, model that we could make reference to and learn from writing case notes, designing management for the future development of Liberal Studies education” plans, providing said Charles Mak, Academic Secretary of Liberal Studies treatments, observing Service and Learning Network. instrumental assessments, etc. He was grateful that the clinical training equipped him to integrate his knowledge of anatomy and physiology Morris Poon (left), with his Speech into his work as a speech Therapist Clinical Supervisor, Ms therapist. Ellen Kwong (right) at Singapore National University Hospital

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No Limit to Learn and No The Reunion Dinner and End to Research 7th Annual General Meeting of HKUEdAA Sharing from Professor Sun Miantao [PhD 2003] The Hong Kong University Education Alumni Association (HKUEdAA) held its 7th Annual General Professor Sun Miantao, who studied his Meeting on December 11, 2010, followed by a PhD degree at the Faculty from 2000 to Reunion Dinner at the Hong Kong University Alumni 2003, gave a speech at the Education Association Club. A new Executive Committee was Research Degrees Alumni Reunion on elected and the office-bearers are as follows: November 6, 2010. Professor Sun shared insights into his academic experiences Executive Committee, 2011-2013 during and after the pursuit of his doctorate at HKU. It was interesting that Professor Sun had been a professor and supervisor of PhD candidates for many years before his own study for a PhD degree. “Those rich harvests laid a solid basis for my subsequent academic development,” said Professor Sun.

To begin with, Professor Sun recalled his main academic experiences during his study at HKU. He mentioned his intensive English studies, as he had learnt Russian in junior and senior high school. The tough but productive learning and research also made him hard to forget. Besides the intense learning and research schedule, Professor Sun stated that his plentiful extra-curricular activities not only relaxed him both physically and mentally, but also helped him pour more energy into his study.

Professor Sun continued to share his academic path after his graduation from HKU. By taking on the job of building academic research and academic disciplines, Professor Sun has received several awards in both fields. In 2005, he was awarded the honourary title of “Provincial Outstanding Specialist of Liaoning Province” by the Liaoning Government. Shortly after the AGM, Dr Edwin In 2008, he was awarded “The Leading Talent of Wong, Acting President of the Shenyang City” by the Shenyang Government. Chinese University of Hong Kong – Tung Wah Group of Professor Sun concluded that after many years’ Hospitals Community College accumulation of academic research experience, was invited by HKUEdAA especially following his graduation from HKU, his to share with its members academic strengths and characteristics have been his views on private tertiary formed in the fields of Basic Theory of Educational education. Administration, Educational Policy and Law, Educational Administration, and Educational Effectiveness.

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The Connections between Specific Language Impairment 2010 Faculty Student Knowledge Exchange Award and Reading Disabilities in Cantonese-Chinese Children by The Liberal Studies Service and Learning Network Dr Amy Wong (LSSLN) Understanding Rural Parental Involvement in Schooling: A HKU Foundation Entrance Scholarship Longitudinal Study of Rural Families in Gansu Province by Miss Li Wai Lam Dr Peggy Kong P

HKU Foundation Scholarships for Outstanding e Students l p o What is the Essential Knowledge and Skills Learners Need Miss Cheng Tsz Ting in order to Engage in Active and Effective Use of Common e Information Communication Technologies for Foreign Miss Koon Nim Ting Language Learning? by Dr Lai Chun Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Scholarship (MEXT) Long Service Award Mr Harry Chow Siu Fung We congratulate our administrative staff for their faithful service Li Po Chun Scholarships to the University. Miss Beatrice Aimee Bik Yu Chan For 25 years Miss Liu Ching Yee Mr Tsang Wai Chung Sports Scholarship Ms Pang Chi Ling Ms Philip Michael To Swire Scholarships Ms Carrie Lau Gay Lei Mr Carven Cheng Ms Fanny Wong The George William Hong Choy Memorial Scholarship For 15 years Mr Razi Raza Nasir The University of Tübingen Summer Language Course Scholarship Miss Cheung Kar Yan University Postgraduate Fellowships Miss Lin Feng Mr Dave Ho Mr Anthony Lo Ms Melody Ma Miss Malhotra Neha Deepak 20 21 Co m i n g Ev e n t s Ed u c a t i o n Ma t t e r s

Date Event Venue and Contact Details April 10 and 17, Workshop on “Using Putonghua as the LG06, Hui Oi Chow Science Building, HKU 2011 Medium of Instruction in the Chinese Language Subject Classroom – Problems and Experiences” Enquiries: Miss Kwan (2241 5629 / [email protected]) Website: http://www.hkpeac.hku.hk May 14, 2011 The 4th Symposium of The Asia-Pacific Rayson Huang Theatre, HKU 9:00am – 6:00pm Professional Network for Inclusive Education “Comparative Perspectives on Inclusive Education: The Enquiries: Dr Vicky Tsang Policy and Practice in Asia-Pacific Region” (2857 8377 / [email protected])

May 18, 2011 Undergraduate Programmes Rayson Huang Theatre, HKU 2:30pm – 5:00pm Information Seminar Series Enquiries: Miss Natalie Tsui (2219 4246 / [email protected]) Website: http://web.edu.hku.hk/seminar2011 June 22, 2011 The Signing Ceremony of the 6th Three- Convocation Room, Main Building, HKU 3:30pm year Collaboration Agreement between The University of Hong Kong and The State Language Commission of Enquiries: Ms Ho China (2241 5679 / [email protected])

Website: http://www.hkpeac.hku.hk June 25, 2011 Award Presentation Ceremony for the Rayson Huang Theatre, HKU 3:00pm – 4:30pm Writing Contests “Our Stories on the Same Campus” Enquiries: Dr Vicky Tsang (2857 8377 / [email protected]) June 30, 2011 CITE Research Symposium 2011 Main Campus, HKU and Rooms in Runme Shaw Building 9:00am – 5:00pm Enquiries: Ms Candy Leung (2857 8540 / [email protected]) Website: http://citers2011.cite.hku.hk July 4 – 5, 2011 Policy Forum on Learning Research and Robert Black College, HKU 9:00am – 5:00pm Educational Policies Enquiries: Ms Candy Leung (2857 8540 / [email protected]) July 4 – 8, 2011 The 9th International Conference on Main Campus, HKU 9:00am – 5:00pm Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL 2011) Enquiries: Ms Candy Leung (2857 8540 / [email protected]) Website: http://www.isls.org/cscl2011/home.htm July 11 – 15, 2011 CSCL 2011 Post-Conference Activities in Mainland Campuses of Beijing Normal University, East China 9:00am – 5:00pm China: Research on Learning and Educational Change in Normal University and South China Normal University China from a Global Perspective Enquiries: Ms Candy Leung (2857 8540 / [email protected]) Website: http://www.isls.org/cscl2011/call4post-conf.htm

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Advisor: Professor Stephen Andrews Address: Faculty of Education Editor-in-Chief: Dr Ida Mok The University of Hong Kong Executive Editor: Ms Queenie Wong Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong Deputy Editor: Ms Winnie Koo Tel: (852) 2219 4270 Fax: (852) 2540 6360 Email: [email protected] Website: http://web.edu.hku.hk/