Abstract
- The proposed project is aimed at building a CUHK community of Higher Education Academy (HEA) Fellows who will become internationally recognized professionals alongside 110,000 HEA Fellows in over 85 countries.
- The HEA Fellowship, which is a scheme of AdvanceHE of UK to recognize the professional practice of teachers in higher education, has been established by a number of research studies in terms of its impact and benefit (Beckmann, 2017; Fung and Gordon, 2016*).
- Having a group of teachers becoming teaching fellows of HEA allows our University to form a critical mass of committed teachers who are internationally recognized as teachers with strong evidence of professional practice thus demonstrating an institutional commitment to professionalism in learning and teaching.
- HEA will be invited to CUHK to provide training support to teachers and guide them towards the application through a practical process that encourages research, reflection and development.
- With a robust CUHK community of HEA fellows, it is intended a rippling effect will result and more teachers will be motivated to engage in professional practice thus working towards teaching excellence
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Beckmann, E.A. (2017). Leadership through fellowship: distributed leadership in a professional recognition scheme for university educators, Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 39:2, 155-168
Fung, D. and Gordon, C. (2016). Rewarding educators and education leaders in research-intensive universities. Higher Education Academy, York, UK. |
The project will be completed in three stages
Stage I - Preparation
March to April 2019 |
Soliciting the assistance of HEA in conducting workshops for CUHK teachers
Promoting the workshops among CUHK teachers
Logistic support for running the workshops |
Stage II – training support
April 2019 |
Conduct of workshops by HEA
Providing on-the-spot technical support during the workshops |
Stage III – Follow up
April to June 2019 |
Co-ordination support
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