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Professor Cheng graduated from HKU and obtained his PhD from the University of London. Professor Cheng returned to the University of Hong Kong in 1982 to join the Faculty of Education. He was the Dean of the Faculty from 1992 to 1996, and was a Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the University from 1997 to 2003. Professor Cheng is currently the Senior Advisor to the Vice-Chancellor. Professor Cheng devotes himself to extensive public services in the education sector. He also teaches at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
In his lecture, Professor Cheng will talk on the fundamental changes of society spread over all sectors of human activities but which are not always matched by changes in education. He will challenge the assumptions from an industrial society on which our education system is underpinned, and give an update on education reforms around the world which have already raised such questions, but where fundamental overhauls are yet to be made.
This inaugural professorial lecture is part of the Commonwealth Council for Educational Administration and Management (CCEAM) Conference which will be held in Hong Kong and Shanghai between October 20 and October 26. The opening ceremony of the conference will be held tomorrow at 5:30 p.m. at HKU's Rayson Huang Theatre where Professor Lap-Chee Tsui, HKU's Vice-Chancellor and Professor Mark Bray, HKU's Dean of Education, and Mr Chris Wardlaw, Deputy Secretary, Education and Manpower Bureau will officiate at the ceremony. For further details of the conference, please visit http://web.hku.hk/%7Ecel2004/.
For media enquiries, please contact Ms Polo Leung of HKU's External Relations Office at 2859 2600.
HKU's Faculty of Education Inaugural Professorial Lecture to be held tomorrow
19 Oct 2004
Professor Kai-Ming Cheng, Senior Advisor to the Vice-Chancellor and Chair Professor of Education at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) is to deliver an inaugural professorial lecture entitled Questioning Education: Learning and Society in a Post-Industrial Era at 6:00 p.m. tomorrow (October 20) at Rayson Huang Theatre, the University of Hong Kong. All are welcome.
Professor Cheng graduated from HKU and obtained his PhD from the University of London. Professor Cheng returned to the University of Hong Kong in 1982 to join the Faculty of Education. He was the Dean of the Faculty from 1992 to 1996, and was a Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the University from 1997 to 2003. Professor Cheng is currently the Senior Advisor to the Vice-Chancellor. Professor Cheng devotes himself to extensive public services in the education sector. He also teaches at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
In his lecture, Professor Cheng will talk on the fundamental changes of society spread over all sectors of human activities but which are not always matched by changes in education. He will challenge the assumptions from an industrial society on which our education system is underpinned, and give an update on education reforms around the world which have already raised such questions, but where fundamental overhauls are yet to be made.
This inaugural professorial lecture is part of the Commonwealth Council for Educational Administration and Management (CCEAM) Conference which will be held in Hong Kong and Shanghai between October 20 and October 26. The opening ceremony of the conference will be held tomorrow at 5:30 p.m. at HKU's Rayson Huang Theatre where Professor Lap-Chee Tsui, HKU's Vice-Chancellor and Professor Mark Bray, HKU's Dean of Education, and Mr Chris Wardlaw, Deputy Secretary, Education and Manpower Bureau will officiate at the ceremony. For further details of the conference, please visit http://web.hku.hk/%7Ecel2004/.
For media enquiries, please contact Ms Polo Leung of HKU's External Relations Office at 2859 2600.
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