Global Higher Education Bulletin (Hong Kong)

Vol. 2, No. 5 April 2, 2019

Editor: Dr. Anatoly Oleksiyenko

Hello everyone,

We are approaching the end of Semester 2 at our Higher Education – MEd program. Our current students are revising their draft proposals, seeking ethics review approvals, engaging participants, etc. in preparation for fieldwork and data collection before writing their final projects and theses. Meanwhile, as listed below, I have received several updates from other community members, most of whom are busy with travels, conference presentations, and final classes:

1. In March 2019, Susan Bridges & Monaliza Chian (PDF) conducted a week of invited research seminars and workshops on ‘Interactional Ethnography’ for the Lithuanian Educational Research Association (LERA) at Klaipeda University, Lithuania following an initial visit to HKU by a Lithuanian research team in 2018. This visit was reported by Klaipeda University: https://www.ku.lt/vipa/2019/01/04/stazuote-honkongo-universiteto-edukologijos-fakultete/  (LERA hosts also arranged meetings with the Rector and Vice-Rector of Klaipeda University as well as the city Mayor of Klaipeda as reported locally: http://www.ve.lt/naujienos/klaipeda1/klaipeda/klaipedos-universitete—sveciai-is-honkongo-1696134/?fbclid=IwAR1GRMJOqdyzmMh1S6K5AtkgPiTDRO0NQVVzpa4R7BNWs42fdVVOwC2hI18 ;
https://www.facebook.com/KlaipedosMeras/posts/2184681898262029

2. Kohei Takagi, our alum and Manager at the Office of Global Education and Collaboration, Sophia University made a presentation at the annual conference of the Comparative Education Society of Hong Kong several weeks ago. We would like to congratulate Kohei on being recently admitted to the PhD program at Tokyo University.

3. April Zhang Haipei, our current student, has received invitation to present at the 2019 OISE-UT/Humber College conference “Shaping Sustainable Futures for Internationalization in Higher Education” in Toronto (we wrote about this conference in our January issue). Well-done, April!

4. Those of you who may seek opportunity to build collaborations abroad and engage with international scholars and students in North America, please consider submitting your paper or poster proposal to the annual conference of Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE). The deadline is April 18. The conference will take place on November 13-16, 2019 in Portland, Oregon. See the conference web-site at https://www.ashe.ws/conference

5. Liz Jackson, Director of Comparative Education Research Centre (CERC), has recently published an opinion piece in the South China Morning Post.  She writes that HKU deserves to be recognized as the world’s most international university, broadcast by the Times Higher Education, one of the globally-influential rankers. However, she argues, the university needs to do more work to support diversity, while helping international students to cope with housing problems and social exclusion, among other pressures. More on this, see https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/3003440/university-hong-kong-worlds-most-international-university

6. CERC’s team is preparing for research presentations at the annual conference of the Comparative and International Education Society (USA) in San Francisco on April 14-18, 2019. If you attend the conference, join the presentations by Mark Bray, Cong Lin, Siyuan Feng, Pubali Ghosh, Hugo Horta, Liz Jackson, Jisun Jung, Priya Goel La Londe, Li Menyang, Welhong Liang, Junyan Liu,  Yulia Nesterova, Anatoly Oleksiyenko, Gearard Postiglione, Frank Reichert, Rong Hui Li, Farid Md Shaikh, Carlos Soto, Kevin Wai Ho Yung, Dan Wang, Jingying Wang, Wenxi Wu, Lisa Yiu, Teng Yuan, Zhang Wai, and Grace Yajun Zheng. Also, don’t miss an opportunity to attend and buy books from the book table presented collaboratively by CERC and East China Normal University. The conference programme is available at: https://cies2019.org/program/

7. If you are at the University of California at Berkeley on April 15, 2019 (15:00-16:00) during the CIES, please also attend the book launch presentation held by Anatoly Oleksiyenko and Igor Chirikov. To register for the event, please visit this site: https://cshe.berkeley.edu/international-status-anxiety-and-higher-education-soviet-legacy-china-and-russia-book-presentation

8. During the summer time, we usually have a much slower traffic of news. However, if you have any updates for us, please send them to paoleks@hku.hk so that we can share them in our next issue.