Welcome Professor Anthong Cheung Bing-leung to join the Department of Asian and Policy Studies (APS)
2018-02-27
It is with great pleasure that the Department of Asian and Policy Studies (APS) welcomes Professor Anthong Cheung Bing-leung. Professor Cheung joins APS as Research Chair Professor and will be contributing his wealth of knowledge and experience to both the academic community at EdUHK as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students. Professor Cheung has served previously as President of the Hong Kong Institute of Education, now the Education University of Hong Kong, and between July 1, 2012 to June 30, 2017, as Secretary for Transport and Housing in the administration of Leung Chun-ying, Hong Kong, SAR, China. Professor Cheung’s extensive scholarship into public administration and public sector management, coupled with his practical experience in managing two of the most complex and often controversial issue areas in public policy, transport and housing, is ideally suited to the ongoing research and teaching focus of APS. As a distinguished scholar and practitioner of public policy, Professor Cheung’s appointment will enhance the Department’s effort to educate and train the next generation of change leaders and contribute to better public sector governance outcomes for Hong Kong, the greater China region and Asia more generally.
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Some 60 scholars from 16 countries and regions in the world gathered at the Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK) on 24-25 November 2017, participating in the International Research Symposium of Public Management in Asia: Innovation and Transformation. Hosted by the Department of Asian and Policy Studies (APS) of EdUHK, this symposium was co-organized by public management faculties and institutes of eight other reputable universities from Mainland China, Thailand, the Philippines and Central Asia. Public Administration and Development, Policy and Society and Journal of Asian Public Policy served as supporting journals of this high-profile research event. Speaking at the opening ceremony, Prof. Lui Tai-lok, Vice President (Research and Development) of EdUHK expressed his warm welcome to delegates and wished that similar research conferences could further extend EdUHK’s international outreach. The symposium also witnessed the signing of Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between EdUHK and Naresuan University of Thailand. Departmental MoUs were also signed between APS and School of Political Science and Public Administration of Wuhan University and School of Public Administration, South China University of Technology (SCUT), two renowned universities in Mainland China. In a post-conference round-table, senior representatives of leading universities from Mainland China, South Korea, Central Asia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam engaged in extensive discussion on public policy and management education in Asia and explored various collaboration initiatives.
APS Host the 2017 Public Policy Summer School
2017 August This year over 70 undergraduate and postgraduate students from four Mainland Chinese universities participated in the Department of Asian and Policy Studies’ 2017 Public Policy Summer School (5-11 August 2017). As part of the Department’s Knowledge Transfer Initiative, the Programme offered a number of multifaceted activities which included research seminars, mini-lectures, hands-on workshops, study tours and getting-to-know Hong Kong excursions. The participants greatly valued the new mode of public policy education. The participating universities were Central South University, Hunan Normal University, Huazhong Agricultural University and University of South China.
