Past Seminars

Russian higher education: What might a visit to Siberia reveal about shifting boundaries? (Anatoly Oleksiyenko and Kai-Ming Cheng) This seminar is co-organized with Community of Higher Education Research and Wah Ching Centre of Research on Education in China

18 May 2012:

Roundtable ― UNESCO’s Education Sector: Priorities and Strategies [Chairpersion: Mark Bray, Speakers: Tang Qian and David Atchoarena]

Snapshots from the seminar are available in CERC’s Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/CERC.HKU

2 May 2012:

Language Policy Research in Historical and Comparative Perspective (James W. Tollefson)

Snapshots from the seminar are available in CERC’s Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/CERC.HKU

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30 April 2012:

Partnerships for EFA: Exploring a Possibility for Experiential Learning (Ora Kwo)

Snapshots from the seminar are available in CERC’s Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/CERC.HKU

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Click here for the presentation by Albert Chau (Dean of Student Affairs) on the related theme, entitled

CEDARS’s Educational Funds for Service and Global Citizenship Projects

19 March 2012:

International Education Policy After 2015: Past Trends, Future Proposals (Aaron Benavot)

Snapshots from the seminar are available in CERC’s Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/CERC.HKU

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1 March 2012:

Comparative and International Education: What’s in a Name? (Angela W. Little)

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Snapshots from the seminar are available in CERC’s Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/CERC.HKU

28 February 2012: >Taking Targets to Task Revisited: How Indicators of Progress on Access to Education can Mislead (Keith M. Lewin)

Snapshots from the seminar are available in CERC’s Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/CERC.HKU

23 February 2012:

Do Neo-liberalism and Neo-colonialism Really Change the Concepts of internationalization in Higher Education? (Gilsun Song)

23 February 2012:

Recruiting students from China: Taiwan’s policies and dilemmas faced (Sheng-Ju Chan)

Photo-1 – Dr. Yang Rui (Chair) introduced the presenter, Dr. Sheng-Ju Chan.

Photo-2 – Dr. Sheng-Ju Chan

Photo-3 – The participants

21 February 2012:

Linguistic capital: Continuity and change in educational language policies for ethnic Koreans in China and South Asians in Hong Kong (Gao Fang) [This seminar is co-organised with Wah Ching Centre of Research on Education in China.]

Link to the paper relevant to the seminar

17 January 2012:

Ecology and Education: Engagement, Marriage or Divorce? (Tamara Savelyeva)

Chair: Ora Kwo

Discussant: David Woo

Link to the slides: http://prezi.com/xc-ldiue1ozt/cerc-2012/

29 November 2011: A Comparison of Mathematics Learning Task Lesson Events between Australia and Shanghai (Ida Mok)

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Photo-1 – Professor Frederick Leung (Chair) introduced the presenter, Dr. Ida Mok.

Photo-2 Photo-3 – Dr. Ida Mok.

22 November 2011:

Charm Offensive, Revenge or Symbolic Violence? Confucius Institutes in Peru (Jae Park)

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Photo-1 – Dr. Yang Rui (Chair) introduced the presenter, Dr. Jae Park.

Photo-2 Photo-3 Photo-4 – Participants were self-introduced.

Photo 5 – Dr. Jae Park.

Photo-6 Photo-7 Photo-8 – Comments and questions from participants.

15 November 2011: Education in Small States: Planning in the Context of Globalization (Mark Bray and Michael Crossley)

Photo-1 – Opening by Dr. Yang Rui (Chair) with the two presenters: Prof. Mark Bray and Prof. Michael Crossley

Photo-2 – The presenters

Photo 3 – Participants

Photo-4 Photo-5 Photo-6 Photo-7 Photo-8 – More snapshots of the participants

25 October 2011:

Students’ private work in mathematics classrooms in Sweden, Philippine and Japan: Are these adidactical situtation?(Florenda Gallos Cronberg)

Photo-1 – Chair, Dr Ida Mok

Photo-2 – Presenter, Dr Florenda Gallos Cronberg

Photo 3 – Question from Prof. Mark Bray

Photo-4 – Question from Dr Angel Lin

18 October 2011:

Research Collaboration among Academics with a Focus of China and Korea (Jisun Jung)

Photo-1 – Chair, Professor Gerard Postiglione

Photo-2 – Presenter, Dr Jisun Jung

Photo 3 – Question from Dr Jae Park

Photo-4 – Question from Dr Anatoly Oleksiyenko

Photo-5 – Question from participant

11 October 2011:

Self and the other in the Confucian cultural context: Implications of China’s higher education development for comparative studies (Yang Rui)

Photo-1 – Chair, Professor Nirmala Rao

Photo-2 – Presenter, Dr Yang Rui

Photo 3 – Question from Professor Cheng Kai Ming

Photo-4 – Participants

Photo-5 – Question from participant

4 October 2011:

The elite school as a ‘cognitive machine’? Developing transnational capitals for the national ‘field of power’ (Jane Kenway, Johannah Fahey and Aaron Koh)

Photo-1 – Professor Jane Kenway

Photo-2 – Dr. Johannah Fahey

Photo 3 – Dr. Aaron Koh

Photo-4 – Question from Dr. Anatoly Oleksiyenko

Photo-5 – Question from participant

28 September 2011:

Critical Dilemmas in the Post Colony: A Review of Universities and Change in South Africa (Ihron Rensburg)

Photo-1 – Mark Bray (Chair) introduced Ihron Rensburg (Presenter)

Photo-2 Photo 3 – Ihron Rensburg

Photo-4 – Participants

Photo-5 Photo-6 – Questions from participants

27 September 2011:

Privatization of Public Education in Cambodia: Equity Implications of Private Tutoring (William C. Brehm)

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Click here for the YouTube clip showed in the seminar “Rean Kua – Why Private Tutoring”

Photo-1 – Mark Bray (Chair) and William Brehm (Presenter) discussed before the seminar

Photo-2 – William Brehm

Photo-3 – Participants

Photo-4 Photo-5 Photo-6 – Questions and comments from participants

Photo-7 – Mark Bray and William Brehm at the questions session

19 September 2011:

Adapting to Changing Priorities in an Evolving World: The Work of UNESCO and its International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP) (Khalil Mahshi)

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Photo-1 – Mark Bray, Chair (also the former IIEP Director) introduced the Presenter (the current IIEP Director), Khalil Mahshi

Photo-2 – Khalil Mahshi mentioned about the Mission of IIEP

Photo-3 – The room was fully filled

Photo-4 – Question from Cheng Kai Ming

Photo-5 – Question from Ora Kwo

Photo-6 – Question from Zhan Shengli

Photo-7 Photo-8 Photo-9 – Question from more participants

Photo-10 – More questions after the seminar

15 September 2011:

The global visions and strategies of Asia-Pacific universities (Simon Marginson)

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Photo-1 – Yang Rui, Chair introduced the Presenter, Simon Marginson

Photo-2 – Presenter, Simon Marginson and Discussant, Anatoly Oleksiyenko

Photo-3 – listening to the Discussant

Photo-4 – Some of the participants

Photo-5 – Q & A from one of the participants

Photo-6 – Q & A: Gerard Postiglione

6 September 2011:

African Students in China: A case study of newly arrived students on FOCAC funds at Chongqing University (Adams Bodomo) Click here for the ppt presented in the seminar

Photo-1 – Mark Bray, Chair introduced the Presenter, Adams Bodomo

Photo-2 – Adams Bodomo

Photo-3 – Q & A: Anatoly Oleksiyenko

Photo-4 – Some of the participants

Photo-5 – Q & A from one of the participants

Photo-6 – Q & A from one of the participants

19 July 2011:

Can diversity in higher education be maintained under the pressure of global rankings? (Ruth Hayhoe)

[Organized by Community for Higher Education Research (CHER) in collaboration with CERC and Wah Ching Centre of Research on Education in China (CREC)]

Click here for the Keynote Address for the Ministerial Roundtable and International Education Conference (14 July 2011) given by Ruth Hayhoe, entitled Education Reform and Human Resource Development: A Perspective on Hong Kong

Photo-1 – The talk presented by Prof. Ruth Hayhoe

Photo-2 – Dr Anatoly Oleksiyenko introduced the presenter and the discussants (from second left to right: Prof. Gerard Postiglione, Prof. Ruth Hayhoe, Prof. Cheng Kai Ming and Dr. Li Jun)

Photo-3 – Prof. Ruth Hayhoe and Prof. Cheng Kai Ming

Photo-4 – Dr Anatoly Oleksiyenko and Prof. Gerard Postiglione

Photo-5 – Dr. Li Jun

Photo-6 – Some of the participants

Photo-7 – Some of the participants

3 June 2011:

PISA in Shanghai: Context, Findings and Policy Implications (Zhang Minxuan)

[Co-organized with Wah Ching Centre of Research on Education in China (CREC)]

Please click to get the video, powerpoint presentation and report mentioned in the seminar:

Video: PISA Top Performer, Shanghai, China

Powerpoint presentation: PISA Result and Reflection for HKU

Shanghai and Hong Kong: Two Distinct Examples of Education Reform in China