Newsletter No. 186

2 No. 186 19th June 2001 CUHK Newsletter Educa t i onal Re f o rm Under Probe Q uestions as to how school-based management should be implemented, how new immigrant students can fit into our education system, whether our students respect their teachers, and whether our teachers are competent enough, were dealt w i th at the International Conference on Rejuvenating Schools Through Partnership, held from 22nd to 24th May 2001 in the Esther Lee Building. The event was organized by the Centre for University and School Partnership o f the Faculty of Education and the Hong Kong Institute o f E d u c a t i o n a l Research of the Un i v e r s i t y, i n collaboration with the Edu c a t i on Department of the H K S A R , an d various school councils in Hong K o n g . I t was sponsored by the Quality Education Fund. The conference provided an opportunity for the synthesis of ideas and efforts. Experts intimately involved in important school reform projects in Asia, Australia, Europe, and North America shared their insight and experience with the participants under sub-themes such as innovative models and programmes through partnerships, curriculum and instructional innovations in schools, reforming the occupational conditions of teaching, and reforming the relationship between schools and their clients. Officiating at the opening ceremony of the conference was Mr. Matthew Cheung, director of education of the HKSAR. Managemen t Programm e Jointl y Off re d wit h To p Busines s School s T h e Faculty o f Business Administration is now offering GLOBE, a global advanced management programme, j o i n t ly with three top business schools: the Stern School of Business of New York University, HEC of Paris, and Fundacao Getulio Vargas (FGV) of Sao Paulo, Brazil. GLOBE provides a unique professional development experience for high-level executives in an authentic global environment. The programme w i l l be delivered in four one-week segments, each in a different city. It is to open in New York with an examination of the New Economy of innovation and finance. The Hong Kong segment w i l l address risk and opportunity in emerging economies. In Paris, the programme w i l l deal with the building and control of global organizations. It w i l l conclude in Sao Paulo with the management of globalization and cultural diversity. In between segments, participants w i l l work on group projects, applying the concepts they have learnt to their own organizations. The Stem School of Business is a world leader in business education, while HEC is France's leading business school and one of the most renowned in Europe, and FGV was founded with the support of both the Brazilian and the US governments. Awards f or Trans l at i on Studies R esults for the 2001 Stephen C. Soong Translation Studies Memo r i al Awards were announced following an adjudicator's meeting on 25th May 2001. The adjudicators were Prof. David Pollard, Dr. Mary Fung, Prof. Wang Kefei, and Dr. Eva Hung. The winners are L i Defeng (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), whose thesis is titled 'Tailoring Translation Programmes to Social Needs: A Survey of Professional Translators', and Zhu Chunshen (City University of Hong Kong), whose thesis is on 'Perception and Cognition in Translating Chinese Landscape Poetry: A Case Study of L i u Zongyuan's poem River Show, Etudes sur le Texte et Ses Transformations'. Wang Dongfeng (Nanjing University) received an honourable mention for 'The Cultural Positioning of Translated Literature and the Cultural Standpoint of the Translator'. Geography Student Wins Award M r. Shan Yin, a Ph.D. student of the Department of Geography, won the Young Author Best Paper Awa rd at the 3rd ISPRS Workshop on D y n am i c and M u l t i - D imens i onal GIS that was he ld a t the As i an Institute o f Technology, Bangkok, f r om 23rd to 2 5 t h Ma y 2001. M r . Shan's paper was entitled ' M i n i n g S e q u e n t i al Pattern from Geo Spatial Data'. Mr. Shan is also a research assistant of the J o i nt L a b o r a t o ry f o r Geoinformation Science (JLGIS) established by the Chinese Academy o f Sciences and The Chinese University. O r c h e s t r a f r o m U Penn P e r f o r ms a t CUHK The University of Pennsylvania Symphony Orchestra gave a concert in Sir Run Run Shaw Hall on 30th May as the last leg of their M i l l e n n i um Tour o f China. A l l proceeds f r om the concert went t o w a r ds t he Penn Sc h o l a rs Programme, which sponsors Hong Kong students on exchange to the University of Pennsylvania. 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