CityU Teaching Excellence Awards Presentation Ceremony

We would like to invite you to cover the following event:

Event: CityU Teaching Excellence Awards Presentation Ceremony

Date: 17 April 2012 (Tuesday)

Time: 9:30am

Venue: Purple Zone, 4/F, Academic 1, City University of Hong Kong

Programme: 9:30am Opening remarks by Professor Way Kuo, CityU President

9:35am Speech by Mrs Cherry Tse Ling Kit-ching, Permanent Secretary for Education, Education Bureau, HKSAR

9:45am Announcement of results and award presentation

10:00am Presentations by award winners

11:20am Closing remarks by Professor Christian Wagner, Panel Chair (Teaching Excellence Awards)

11:30am Winners meet the media

Six outstanding teachers will receive the 2011-12 Teaching Excellence Awards at City University of Hong Kong (CityU) on 17 April at the University.

Mrs Cherry Tse Ling Kit-ching, Permanent Secretary for Education, Education Bureau, HKSAR, will give a speech on the “Importance of teaching excellence in Hong Kong’s higher education sector” at the presentation ceremony, which Professor Way Kuo, CityU President, will host.

The six award winners include a business school teacher of Latvian origin who has won CityU’s Teaching Excellence Awards two times before; a PhD graduate from Tsinghua University who taught himself Cantonese in order to enhance communication with his computer science students; a creative media professor who motivates student learning through his pioneering “special interest groups”; an engineering teacher who uses his own innovative pedagogic model to help students turn their ideas into invention; an electronics engineering teacher who regards teaching as coaching students inside and outside the classroom; and an English teacher who has taught in Russia and the Middle East. The winners will introduce their unique pedagogies and share their teaching experiences with the media.

Media enquiries: Michelle Leung, Communications and Public Relations Office (Tel: 3442 6827 or 9050 7507)