Bulletin Autumn‧Winter 2006

Chinese University Bulletin Autumn · Winter 2006 54 T he WrITE Project (Writing for Integrated Teacher Education) of the Faculty of Education, has been chosen as the First Associated International Site of the National Writing Project (NWP) worldwide. The National Writing project (NWP) is a network of 195 university-affiliated sites across the US with selected international partnerships. Administered out of the Graduate School of Education at UC Berkeley, the mission of the project is to improve the teaching and learning of writing in English in schools by recognizing the primary importance of teacher knowledge, expertise and leadership. The WrITE Project in Hong Kong, sponsored by the Dr. Tien Chang Lin TechnologyInnovationFoundationLimited and under the leadership of Dr. Barley Mak from the Faculty of Education, while embracing the philosophy of the US NWP, also adapts and adopts the NWP model to suit the local English language teaching community. (From left) Dr. Paul LeMahieu, director of research and evaluation of the National Writing Project at UC Berkeley; Dr. Barley Mak, director of the WrITE Project, Faculty of Education, CUHK; Prof. Leslie Lo, founding dean of the Faculty of Education, CUHK; Mr. Leslie W.K. Chung, director, Dr. Tien Chang Lin Technology Innovation Foundation Limited First Associated International Site of the National Writing Project CUHK Strengthens Ties with Leading Australian Universities V ice-Chancellor Prof. Lawrence J. Lau led a nine-member delegation to Australia from 7 to 11 December 2006 to strengthen the University’s ties with leading Australian universities. The visit is part of an outreach programme launched for the internationalization of CUHK. The delegation visited Australian National University, the University of Melbourne and the University of Sydney. They met with leaders of the universities and key researchers in their respective fields. A number of excitingprospects to foster closer collaboration between CUHK and the three universities are under investigation. The delegation included Pro-Vice- Chancellor Prof. Jack Cheng, Associate Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Registrar Prof. Billy So, director of the Epithelial Cell Biology Research Centre Prof. Chan Hsiao Chang, Associate Dean (Education) of the Faculty of Engineering Prof. Chan Lai Wan, Director of the School of Law Prof. Mike McConville, Chairman of the Department of English Prof. David Parker, director of the UGC–AoE on Plant and Fungal Biotechnology Centre Prof. Samuel Sun, and senior programme manager of the Office of Academic Links Ms. Shally Fan. Prof. Lawrence J. Lau (right), Vice-Chancellor of CUHK, presenting a souvenir to Prof. Ian Chubb, Vice-Chancellor of Australian National University