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Enquiry Abstract HKIEd aspires to be a leading university in the Asia-pacific region. This seminar focuses on the challenges to be faced in building a university for new times in Asia, a virtuous university, one whose teaching, research and service to the community combine competence with virtue, one that contributes to the common good. The challenges facing universities in Asia are highlighted and the implications for teaching, research, community engagement and the quality assurance and contributions to knowledge and its use in policy and practice explored. Speaker Professor Colin Power was Deputy Director-General of UNESCO from 1999 to 2000 and Assistant Director-General for Education from 1989 to 1998. As such, he was responsible for the overall policy and management of the education programmes of UNESCO, playing a central role in all of its major initiatives, such as International Literacy Year, Education for All and the International Commission on Education for 21st Century, and in the UN’s struggle to alleviate poverty, to defend human rights, to protect world heritage sites, and to promote education for sustainable development and a culture of peace and non-violence. He is author or co-author of 13 books and over 250 published works on education, learning and development. Currently he is Chair of the Commonwealth Consortium for Education and Director of the Eidos Institute (an international research network and think tank on social policy issues). Prof. Power is one of the four distinguished individuals who will be conferred honorary doctorates at 17th Congregation of the Hong Kong Institute of Education on 2nd December 2011. |
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