At the international conference in PVE education co-hosted by AEDI and IPVELL at EdUHK on 5-6 Dec. 2026, Dr Percy Kwok Lai Yin (EPL Dept.) and Dr Wendy Huang Haoyi (Psychology Dept.) co-presented a paper on resolving value tensions and advancing strategic development in AI and STEM education for K-12 schools in Hong Kong, grounded in a decade of collaboration among students, edupreneurs, and educational researchers. Regarding the growing significance of AI in human societies, AI has multiple roles in assisting, enhancing, and co-creating new knowledge with the three stakeholder groups. Dr Kwok and Dr Huang conceptualized a complex network of attitudes, creations/intelligence, skills, and knowledge in the new two-way knowledge transfer model between AI and the stakeholder groups. Implications were drawn for further research and policymaking in lifelong and life-wide learning in the futurist era, with some conceptual indicators for further development of AI-induced professional and vocational education (PVE) in local and international perspectives. They were engaged in deep discussions with international PVE researchers and scholars, identifying new research directions and actionable strategies for PVE (especially micro-credentials) in the GBA.
In the opening ceremony, Prof. John Lee Chi Kin, the president of EdUHK, contended that PVE is a tool to navigate new windows for lifelong learning and talent development on a global scale, and to integrate academic and vocational learning to equip people with competence, values, and adaptability in the rapidly changing world. Dr Kwok and Dr Huang treasured the golden moments in the roundtable session, reflecting the gaps and connections between theories and practices in PVE education from upper secondary to workplace education. Notably, Dr Kwok and Dr Huang gained a golden opportunity to learn from young professors and researchers leading PVE educational development in other GBA cities.
