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HKU weekly notice (from January 12 to January 18, 2013)

11 Jan 2013

 

Opening Ceremony of the Regional Workshop
IIEP Distance Training Programme on Education Sector Planning in Asia (Indonesia – Thailand – Viet Nam)
From June 2012 to May 2013, UNESCO’s International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP- UNESCO), with the sponsorship of JPMorgan Chase Foundation, will offer the third edition of its Distance Training Programme on Education Sector Planning (ESP) in three Asian countries (Indonesia, Thailand, and Viet Nam).  The previous sessions of the programme were successfully implemented in African countries between 2008 and 2010.

Implemented in collaboration with the University of Hong Kong (HKU), this training programme aims at reinforcing institutional capacity in educational planning at national and regional levels, by training a pool of 60 to 70 education professionals.

An Opening Ceremony of the Regional Workshop of IIEP Distance Training Programme on Education Sector Planning Asia will be held on January 14 (Monday). An Opening Session with speeches will be delivered by Ms Gabriele Gottelmann of IIEP; Professor Stephen Andrews, Dean of Education of HKU; Professor Mark Bray, UNESCO Chair in Comparative Education as well as Ms Jean K. Sung, Executive Director & Manager, Global Philanthropy Asia-Pacific of J.P. Morgan.

Details of the Opening Ceremony are as follows:

Date: January 14, 2013 (Monday)
Time:
9:00 am (Reception)
9:30 am (Ceremony )
Venue: Foyer, Rayson Huang Theatre, HKU

For media enquiries and interview request, please contact Ms Queenie Wong, Development and Communications Manager, Faculty of Education, HKU (Tel.: 2219 4270 / Mobile: 9220 5840 / Fax: 2540 6360 / E-mail: qlpwong@hku.hk).

Distinguished Lecture on “Post-socialist Families and Marriages: the Experience of Shanghai” by Prof. Deborah Davis
Deborah S. Davis is a Professor of Sociology at Yale University. Her primary teaching interests are historical and comparative sociology, inequality and stratification, contemporary Chinese society, and methods of fieldwork. Prof. Davis is currently a member of the National Committee on US China Relations and in 2004 helped launch the Yale China Health Journal. Her past publications have analyzed the politics of the Cultural Revolution, Chinese family life, social welfare policy, consumer culture, property rights, social stratification and occupational mobility. In 2008 Stanford University Press published Creating Wealth and Poverty in Post-Socialist China, co-edited with Wang Feng. Currently she is completing a monograph entitled A Home of Our Own, a study of the social consequences of the privatization of real estate in urban China.

Date: January 15, 2013 (Tuesday)
Time: 4pm to 6pm
Venue: T4, 1/F, Meng Wah Complex, HKU
Language: English

For further information, please visit: http://www.hkihss.hku.hk/filemanager/content/event_calendar/2013/2013-01-15.pdf

For enquiries, please contact Ms Yvonne Chan at 3917 5901