Media

HKU weekly notice (from March 22 to 28, 2014)

21 Mar 2014

 

Education Seminar Series (10) by the Faculty of Education, HKU “Parents and Schools Partnership for Children”

The Faculty of Education, in support of the University’s drive to strengthen knowledge exchange, one of the three strategic themes of the University’s Strategic Development, takes the initiative in knowledge sharing with the public by organizing a series of education seminars for parents.  The past seminars on Mathematics, English, Liberal Studies, Information Technology, sending children abroad, the ways in using voice to teach children, creative, healthy voice of children and private tutoring held since 2010 received enthusiastic response.

Our Faculty is going to organize the 10th seminar on “Parents and Schools Partnership for Children” on March 22 (Tomorrow).  The focus will be on the possibility of collaboration between parents and schools as well as parent education.

In the seminar, the following issues will be discussed:
• How parents to collaborate with schools in nurturing kids?
• How parents to achieve lifelong learning and grow up with kids?
• How schools to support parents in tackling kids’ problems?
• How schools in Singapore and Hong Kong implement parent education for the betterment of being parents?

Dr Pang Ming Fai, Associate Dean and Associate Professor of Faculty of Education of HKU, is the main proponent of the “Parents as Learners” paradigm, a new pedagogical perspective to parent education.  Mr Edmund Lim, School Principal of Huamin Primary School in Singapore, will talk about the experiences of Singaporean school in parent education.  Mr Eric Chan, School Manager of Tak Sun Secondary School, and his wife Christina are parent education leaders.  Mrs Gloria Chan Leung Suk Ching, School Principal, and Mrs Tanny Yiu Lai Tan Man, Assistant Principal of Kau Yan School and Kindergarten, are champions of in-school parent education for more than 10 years.  Dr Luis Go is a researcher on “Parental Learning” of Faculty of Education of HKU.

Media representatives are cordially invited to the seminar, the details are as follows:

Date:  March 22, 2014 (Tomorrow)
Time:  10:00am – 12:00noon
Venue:   CPD LG.18 and CPD 2.42, Central Podium Levels, Centennial Campus, The University of Hong Kong
Language:  Cantonese and English

For media enquiries, please contact Ms Queenie Wong, Senior Manager (Development and Communications) (Tel.: 2219 4270 / Fax: 2540 6360 / E-mail: qlpwong@hku.hk).

HKU to hold Award Presentation Ceremony for Excellence in Teaching, Research and Knowledge Exchange 2013

The University of Hong Kong (HKU) will hold an Award Presentation Ceremony on March 26 (Wednesday) to honour outstanding teachers and researchers with University teaching, research and knowledge exchange awards for excellence in their fields. HKU Vice-Chancellor Professor Lap-Chee Tsui will preside at the ceremony and HKU Pro-Chancellor Dr the Honourable Sir David Li Kwok Po will be the Guest of Honour.

During the ceremony, seven categories of awards will be conferred upon a number of our colleagues which include the Outstanding Teaching Award, Outstanding Researcher Award, Outstanding Research Student Supervisor Award, Outstanding Young Researcher Award, Faculty Teaching Awards, Research Output Prize and Knowledge Exchange Award.

Date: March 26, 2014 (Wednesday)

Time: 5pm

Venue: Loke Yew Hall, HKU

Language: English

For further information, please visit: http://www.hku.hk/award/

For media enquiries, please contact Ms Trinni Choy (Assistant Director (Media), Communications and Public Affairs Office) Tel: 2859 2606 email: pychoy@hku.hk or Ms Rhea Leung (Manager (Media), Communications and Public Affairs Office) Tel: 2857 8555 email: rhea.leung@hku.hk .

HKU Young Brain Scientist Program to hold public lecture for secondary school students - “False Beliefs”

Even with all the information available in modern society, people often hold to false beliefs - folk remedies, superstitions, astrology. How do false beliefs arise and why are they so persistent? I will discuss how the mental processes that make us smart and adaptive can also make us susceptible to false beliefs.

The University of Hong Kong (HKU) Young Brain Scientist Program is the first project in HK designed for secondary students, delivered by public lectures to increase their awareness of the potential impact from brain science research. With the success of previous lectures: Attention, The Asymmetries in Our Mind, Optical Illusions, HKU Young Brain Scientist Program will deliver the fourth public lecture - False Belief, to discuss and uncover the mental process that constructs false beliefs.

Date: March 29, 2014 (Saturday)

Time: 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm

Venue: CPD-LG.18, LG Floor, Central Podium Level, Centennial Campus, University of Hong Kong

Speaker: Dr. Jeffrey Saunders

Language: English

This public lecture is free of charge, due to limited seats; registration is on a first-come-first-served basis. Interested secondary school students, please register on or before March 27, 2017 (Thursday) at: http://www.psychology.hku.hk/hkuybs/register.html

For more information, please go to: http://www.psychology.hku.hk/hkuybs/

Our program also welcomes invitation from schools to deliver lectures at their classrooms on demand (Contact: Angelina Mok at 9233-7071 or hkuybs@hku.hk)

University Museum and Art Gallery exhibition: “Surviving Evil: The Pictorial Language of Sara Atzmon”

The Hong Kong Holocaust and Tolerance Centre, the University Museum and Art Gallery and Goethe-Institut Hong Kong are organising a major exhibition in Hong Kong of artworks by Sara Atzmon, a Shoah (Holocaust) survivor who was born in Hungary and now resides in Israel. Ms. Atzmon’s artworks, many of which are large-scale, highly impactful paintings, reflect the artist’s memories of her horrible experiences during the Shoah. In 1944, Ms. Atzmon was first deported to Auschwitz and from there she was sent to Bergen-Belsen under terrible circumstances.

As an adult, Ms. Atzmon became a talent painter dedicated to use her, often very dramatic and explicit, paintings, to bring awareness to the cruel times in our fairly recent past, and to educate a young generation to treasure and practice tolerance, and foster understanding and compassion between people of different religions and cultural backgrounds.

Exhibition period: February 26, 2014 (Wednesday) to May 4, 2014 (Sunday)
Opening Hours:  09:30 to 18:00 (Monday – Saturday); 13:00 – 18:00 (Sunday). Closed on University and Public Holidays
(For details, please visit http://www.hkumag.hku.hk/about_us.html)
Venue: 1/F, T.T. Tsui Building, University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong (For location, please visit: http://www.hkumag.hku.hk/location.html)
Tel: (852) 2241 5500 (General Enquiry)
Free Admission

For media enquiries, please contact:
Miss Elena Cheung (Communication Officer), Tel: (852) 2241 5512, Email: elenac@hku.hk       

For details of the exhibition, please contact:
University Museum and Art Gallery, the University of Hong Kong, Tel: 2241 5500, Email: museum@hku.hk.