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Vol. 7 No. 2 (2009) EDU C ATION MATT E RS COMING EV E NTS Volume 7 No 2 (2009) Date Event Venue and Contact Details October 24, 2009 Information Day for Undergraduate Loke Yew Hall 10:00 am - 6:00 pm Admissions Rayson Huang Theatre Foyer, HKU • Exhibitions & Activities Enquiries: Natalie Tsui • Information Talks (2219 4246 / [email protected]) For more information: http://www.edu.hku.hk/infday2009/ December 12, 2009 Information Session for Doctor of Room LG06, Hui Oi Chow Science 2:15 pm Education (EdD) Building, HKU Enquiries: Alice Yew (2219 4852 / [email protected]) February 6, 2010 Information Session for Master of Rayson Huang Theatre, HKU 2:30 pm Education (MEd) and Postgraduate MEd Programme Certificate in Advanced Educational Enquiries: Fanny Wong Studies (PCAES) (2859 1951 / [email protected]) PCAES Programme PASSING ON Enquiries: Roger Chan (2859 2280 / [email protected]) TH E TOR C H IN TH E February 27, 2010 Information Session for Master of Science Room 104, Runme Shaw Building, HKU 2:15 pm in Information and Technology Education Enquiries: Denise Chan EDU C ATION MARATHON (MSc[ITE]) (2241 5856 / [email protected]) February 27, 2010 Information Session for Master of Science Room 101, Runme Shaw Building, HKU 2:15 pm in Library and Information Management Enquiries: Denise Chan (MSc[LIM]) (2241 5856 / [email protected]) EDITORIAL TE AM Advisor: Professor Shirley Grundy Address: Faculty of Education Editor: Professor S.K. Tse The University of Hong Kong Executive Editor: Ms Queenie Wong Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong Tel: (852) 2219 4270 Fax: (852) 2540 6360 Email: [email protected] The University of Hong Kong Website: http://web.edu.hku.hk/ Faculty of Education INTRODU C TION O F FOR ew ORD DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI D As we enter a new academic year, 2009-10, it is easy for us to become immersed in A mission lives on only when the lives bearing Dr Meng Hongwei has been ISTINGUISH ORD thinking about our new intake of students and those who are returning to study with us. witness to it pass it on. commissioned by UNESCO Teachers are busily preparing their courses, making sure that students will be engaged to conduct research into EW in real, relevant and challenging learning situations. It is too easy, given the pressures of Our Faculty has the mission of having a positive rural education in Asian OR the students who are with us now, to let fade into the distance, those students who were transforming impact on the learning experience countries including China F previously with us. and outcome for the individual, for the community and Sri Lanka since 1993. E and even wider, for the world: He has been Director of the D When students join HKU, however, they join the HKU ‘family’. Like any family, when we Research Centre for Educational Measurement A LUMNI welcome new members to the HKU family, we do not forget our current family members, The mission has been fulfilled through our PhD and Monitoring of the China National Institute for even if they are no longer daily ‘at our table’. The HKU family members, who are now graduates. They have been bearing witness to the Educational Research, President of the Asia-Pacific independent contributors within their chosen contexts, are our HKU Education Alumni. It mission. Over the past few decades, our graduates Association of Educational Assessment, former is timely, therefore, at this stage when we are welcoming the newest members to the HKU have been igniting and passing on the torch in this Vice-President of the Education Commission, the family, that we highlight and honour the contributions of our alumni. education marathon across different continents Central Committee of China Democracy League, and different sectors, building an express train and an International Consultant of ADB Second We have used the metaphor of the ‘marathon relay’ to portray an important message to take the community to high quality education. Education Development project in Mongolia. about our alumni. We believe that as our alumni studied with us, they were able to ignite Their presence is felt beyond Asia, in Europe and He is now a consultant on education reform in the torch of knowledge and fan the flames of commitment to human endeavour. It is America. Cambodia and Laos. our alumni, however, who keep that torch burning. They also fan the flame of desire for ever higher achievements and attainment by themselves and others. We, in turn, are The following is some of the distinguished Alumni. Professor Sun Miantao is enormously proud to be connected with the lives of so many outstanding graduates. Their order of listing follows a customised random now Chief Professor and order for publication purpose. Director, Research Institute We are able to honour only such a small proportion of our distinguished alumni in this of Educational Economics edition of Education Matters. But we hope that reading the stories of those, whose lives Our PhD Graduates in China and Administration of and careers we highlight here, will inspire others to share their stories with us also. Please the Shenyang Normal take the time to be in touch and let us know where you are and what you are doing. The vigorous research training of the Faculty has University. He has empowered many of our graduates to conduct undertaken the research of Whilst we who remain in the Faculty of Education at HKU ‘pass on the torch’ to each new their own research and make it their lifelong education administration cohort of students, we also understand that we have a special responsibility to keep the career. Many have utilized their research findings theory since 1983 and has been actively involved torch bright, not just for future students, but for those who have gone before. We to re-engineer education in their home countries. in national research projects in education commit to you, as our alumni, that we will preserve the on-going status and value of administration. Recently, he has been drafting your HKU degree by maintaining high standards of scholarship and by continuing Professor Zhang Minxuan the “Programme of National Educational Reform to enhance the reputation of your alma mater. Just as we are proud of what you is the Deputy Director of and Development from 2012-2020”, initiating are achieving, we also want you to know that we are striving for the highest Shanghai Municipal Education and moving reform forward at provincial and standards of learning, scholarship and research, so that you can remain proud to Commission. He has been education levels. Professor Sun held that the call yourself an alumnus of the Faculty of Education at HKU. We hope that you re-engineering Education in key to the further advancement of the China’s will enjoy reading of some recent events in which Faculty members have Shanghai. Besides, Professor higher education in the coming decade lies in the been engaged. They illustrate, we hope, that we are keeping the torches of Zhang assisted UNICEF in reshuffle in the power structure and a rational, fair teaching and learning, research and scholarship and service to the local assessing educational work, namely, cluster sharing of power between different stakeholders and wider community burning brightly. schools, and conducted a field study into Takeo of the education system, e.g. between the higher province in Cambodia in 1998. Until now, he has education institutions themselves and the been working together with Dr Maeda Mitsuko, respective governance at central and at provincial now Associate Professor of the Osaka Jogakuin levels. He also sees the advantage of giving Professor Shirley J. Grundy University, and our emeritus Professor Mark Bray more autonomy to higher education institutions Dean in a UNESCO project in comparative education. themselves, which are currently accountable solely to the State. 1 INTRODU C TION O F DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI Professor Wen Qiufong is raised and they are being Dr Sim Seok Hwa, now on an educational career in China soon after now Director of the National provided with more chances Senior Curriculum his graduation. He joined the Shenyang Normal LUMNI Research Center for Foreign to receive an education. The Specialist, Ministry of University, with recommendations from Professor A Language Education of the same applies also to ethnic Sun Miantao, as a special professor in 2004. There, Education of Singapore, D Beijing Foreign Studies minorities and the adult is working on a regular he taught postgraduate modules and conducted E University. She is researching illiterate. However, there are curriculum revamp of comparative research in education between India English language teaching and also hurdles to education Chinese subjects from and China for four years. He is convinced that learning in China and has received many prizes for equity in China, namely, the Form 1 to 4 of secondary India and China, the most populous and fastest teaching awards. more imminent problem of schools in Singapore. In a country where more developing third world countries in the world, poverty: people’s motivation than 70% of the population is of Chinese origin, have much to learn from each other, as they ISTINGUISH Professor Gao Lingbiao, now to study and parents’ her work in the Education Ministry contributes to are undergoing a similar phase of educational D Professor of the South China willingness to commit to preservation of the cultural tradition of Chinese development. What marks Normal University, has been education for their children are often impeded immigrants in an ethnically diverse country. the difference between appointed by the Ministry of by the more pressing need to survive. Secondly, them, however, is the state Education in China to lead the distribution of resources amongst education Dr Anthony Kong Pak Hin, system they are following: projects in evaluation and providers still favours elitism.
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