Visit of the Hong Kong Institute for Higher Education
21 January 2010
The President of the Hong Kong Institute of Education (HKIEd), Professor Anthony B.L. Cheung, and a small group of delegates met with the Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Professor Kevin Edge, on 21 January.
The HKIEd is changing its role to become a world class social science university and has ambitious plans to build links with other institutions world-wide.
As part of these plans, it has recently recruited Professor Ka Ho Mok who was previously Associate Dean of Social Sciences at Hong Kong University, and who accompanied the President to Bath.
Having met the Deputy
Vice-Chancellor, the party met with the Dean of Humanities & Social Sciences and Heads of
Department of Education & Social and Policy Sciences. Discussions focused on the possibilities
of both staff research links and collaborative Masters programmes in European-Asian Studies, Health
and Wellbeing, and Environmental Education.
The University of Bath has been a pioneer in student mobility Masters programmes in both
Politics and Social Policy, going back to the mid-1990s, and the Hong Kong party were interested in
developing this and other models for collaboration.
