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, yesterday (21 January).
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 DVC, 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.